[OmniOS-discuss] 3ware LSI 9750-16i4e

[Dan McDonald]

> On Feb 16, 2015, at 6:44 PM, CJ Keist <cj.keist at colostate.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>   Looking for anyone that might have used this raid controller card? LSI web page states the raid controller is supported for OpenSolaris, but I'm not having any luck getting OmniOS 151012 to see any defined drives from the raid card.

First off... illumos != Solaris.  Stop thinking that way.  Oracle burned that bridge.

Second off, the LSI 2108 chipset SHOULD be supported.  I'd be curious for you to share "prtconf | grep 1000," so I can see the PCIe device identifier. 2108 is an older chipset.

> Anything I'm missing here?

Yes.  You shouldn't be getting a hardware RAID card for a ZFS filesystem.  This card is based on the LSI 2108 chipset, i.e. HW-RAID.  The ONLY reason I can see you wanting such a card is because of the 16i4e (16 + 4).

Ideally, you want something based on either the 2008, 2308, or as of r151012, the 3008 chipset.  Try something on this page:

http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/default.aspx#tab/product-family-tab-1

Or

http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/default.aspx#tab/product-family-tab-2

Hope this helps,
Dan