[OmniOS-discuss] Dell vs. Supermicro and any recommendations..

[Andy]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, John D Groenveld wrote:

; In message <alpine.GSO.2.00.1503201937030.17954 at areb.pvgehf-vg.arg>, Andy write
; s:
; >This definitely looks like a driver problem but I'm making progress.
; >It seems that the code for handling logical versus physical disks on an
; >LSI Invader controller is different and the PD code has some issues.
;
; How much of a performance difference between mr_sas 6.503.00.00ILLUMOS
; and LSI's 6.606.07.00?

6.606.. doesn't work for me, it receives the LD map then starts trying to
"kill" the adapter.

6.605.01.00 is fine however and throughput is 10x better than the
Illumos driver with a much more stable response time.

With 6.503.00.00ILLUMOS, the RAID card keeps reporting

03/20/15 23:00:40: C0:iopiSCSIIOCompleteError:
FPESTATUS_DEVHANDLE_OUT_OF_RANGE mid x02e6 PtrMsg xc00ccc00
03/20/15 23:00:40: C0:Out of range devHandle x0000 from SMID x0000022b

about 300 times a second.
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