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

[CJ Keist]

Thank you.
    Yes, realize that Illumos is not Solaris. But I know that Illumos is 
a branch from OpenSolaris after Oracle decided they didn't want to share 
the same sandbox with everyone else.  I thought it safe to purchase this 
raid controller.  This controller does support JBOD in the that you can 
define each hard disk as a single drive.

Just for information. I was able to remove the SUNWmrsas package.
1. mkdir /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWmrsas/install
2. edit /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWmrsas/pkginfo
    Add "CLASSES=none".
Then pkgrm worked.
3. touch /reconfigure and reboot.

But the LSI driver would not load, still thought mr_sas driver was 
present. So modified the checkinstall script to pass.  But then got error:
pkgadd: ERROR: packaging file 
</root/install/intel/Solaris11/mrsas/install/checkinstall> is corrupt
     file size <1391> expected <1071> actual
     file cksum <47879> expected <23422> actual

Edit pkgmap file and changed line:
1 i checkinstall 1391 47879 1384458730
to
1 i checkinstall 1071 23422 1384458730

That got the LSI drive installed. Again "touch /reconfigure" and reboot.

But even after all that no luck in seeing the defined drives.  modinfo 
didn't show any sas driver running, So did:
modload -p drv/mr_sas

modinfo | grep sas
255 fffffffff8125000  43da0 179   1  mr_sas (6.602.03.00)
devfsadm

Still nothing.  Looks like I'll purchase a different raid card.  Any 
recommendations?
I have system with Intel based mother board: E99552-510
16 4TB internal drives plus a SAS expansion with another 16 4TB hard drives.




On 2/16/15 6:30 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>
>> 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
>

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C. J. Keist                     Email: cj.keist at colostate.edu
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