After the interesting revelations about the X2100 and it''s hot-swap abilities, what are the abilities of the X2200-M2''s disk subsystem, and is ZFS going to tickle any wierdness out of them? -brian -- "The reason I don''t use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? Here''s a hint: it''s not the small and fast one." --Linus
Hi Brian, To my understanding the X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 are basically the same board OEM''d from Quanta...except the 2200 M2 has two sockets. As to ZFS and their weirdness, it would seem to me that fixing it would be more an issue of the SATA/SCSI driver. I may be wrong here. -J On 3/12/07, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:> After the interesting revelations about the X2100 and it''s hot-swap abilities, > what are the abilities of the X2200-M2''s disk subsystem, and is ZFS going to > tickle any wierdness out of them? > > -brian > -- > "The reason I don''t use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is > very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse > buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? > Here''s a hint: it''s not the small and fast one." --Linus > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
Jason J. W. Williams wrote:> Hi Brian, > > To my understanding the X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 are basically the same > board OEM''d from Quanta...except the 2200 M2 has two sockets. > > As to ZFS and their weirdness, it would seem to me that fixing it > would be more an issue of the SATA/SCSI driver. I may be wrong here. >Actually, what has to happen is that we stop using the SATA chipset in IDE compat mode and write proper SATA drivers for it... and manage the upgrade issues,driver name changes, etc. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com blogs.sun.com/barts
On 12-Mar-07, at 2:37 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote:> Jason J. W. Williams wrote: >> Hi Brian, >> To my understanding the X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 are basically the same >> board OEM''d from Quanta...except the 2200 M2 has two sockets. >> As to ZFS and their weirdness, it would seem to me that fixing it >> would be more an issue of the SATA/SCSI driver. I may be wrong here. > > Actually, what has to happen is that we stop using the SATA chipset > in IDE compat mode and write proper SATA drivers for it... and > manage the upgrade issues,driver name changes, etc.We X2100 owners will love you for it. --Toby> > - Bart > > > -- > Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance > barts at cyber.eng.sun.com blogs.sun.com/barts > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
So what is the progress of the SATA Framework integration?? opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301 I don''t have an X2200-M2, but I would love to run my SATA drives in SATA mode :) Rayson On 3/12/07, Toby Thain <toby at smartgames.ca> wrote:> > On 12-Mar-07, at 2:37 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > > > Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > >> Hi Brian, > >> To my understanding the X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 are basically the same > >> board OEM''d from Quanta...except the 2200 M2 has two sockets. > >> As to ZFS and their weirdness, it would seem to me that fixing it > >> would be more an issue of the SATA/SCSI driver. I may be wrong here. > > > > Actually, what has to happen is that we stop using the SATA chipset > > in IDE compat mode and write proper SATA drivers for it... and > > manage the upgrade issues,driver name changes, etc. > > > We X2100 owners will love you for it. > > --Toby > > > > > - Bart > > > > > > -- > > Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance > > barts at cyber.eng.sun.com blogs.sun.com/barts > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
On March 12, 2007 2:50:14 PM -0400 Rayson Ho <rayrayson at gmail.com> wrote:> So what is the progress of the SATA Framework integration?? > > opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301The framework is integrated in both Solaris and OpenSolaris, as demonstrated by the fact that some SATA controllers work natively, and that the x4500 works. There is no driver for the controller on the x2100/x2200 though. -frank
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:14:00PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:> On March 12, 2007 2:50:14 PM -0400 Rayson Ho <rayrayson at gmail.com> wrote: > >So what is the progress of the SATA Framework integration?? > > > >opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301 > > The framework is integrated in both Solaris and OpenSolaris, as demonstrated > by the fact that some SATA controllers work natively, and that the x4500 > works. There is no driver for the controller on the x2100/x2200 though.Is this something that is planned to be worked on? The more I look at the X2200, the more I like the idea of getting one. I don''t like the idea of Solaris not properly supporting something badged by Sun, that doesn''t thrill me at all. ;) -brian -- "The reason I don''t use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? Here''s a hint: it''s not the small and fast one." --Linus
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:14 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:> On March 12, 2007 2:50:14 PM -0400 Rayson Ho <rayrayson at gmail.com> wrote: > > So what is the progress of the SATA Framework integration?? > > > > opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301 > > The framework is integrated in both Solaris and OpenSolaris, as demonstrated > by the fact that some SATA controllers work natively, and that the x4500 > works. There is no driver for the controller on the x2100/x2200 though.nv_sata, a native SATA driver for ck804/mcp55 based chipsets, will likely be integrated into nevada in the coming month or so. If you''d like to get early access to the driver and give me feedback, please contact me directly. Marty
What about the nVidia MCP55PXE (Asus L1N64-SLI board)? Malachi On 3/12/07, Marty Faltesek <marty.faltesek at sun.com> wrote:> > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:14 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > > On March 12, 2007 2:50:14 PM -0400 Rayson Ho <rayrayson at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > So what is the progress of the SATA Framework integration?? > > > > > > opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301 > > > > The framework is integrated in both Solaris and OpenSolaris, as > demonstrated > > by the fact that some SATA controllers work natively, and that the x4500 > > works. There is no driver for the controller on the x2100/x2200 though. > > > nv_sata, a native SATA driver for ck804/mcp55 based chipsets, will > likely be integrated into nevada in the coming month or so. > > If you''d like to get early access to the driver and give me feedback, > please contact me directly. > > Marty > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20070312/3d880e0e/attachment.html>
Hi Marty, We''d love to beta the driver. Currently, have 5 X2100 M2s in production and 1 in development. Best Regards, Jason On 3/12/07, Marty Faltesek <marty.faltesek at sun.com> wrote:> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:14 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > > On March 12, 2007 2:50:14 PM -0400 Rayson Ho <rayrayson at gmail.com> wrote: > > > So what is the progress of the SATA Framework integration?? > > > > > > opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006011301 > > > > The framework is integrated in both Solaris and OpenSolaris, as demonstrated > > by the fact that some SATA controllers work natively, and that the x4500 > > works. There is no driver for the controller on the x2100/x2200 though. > > > nv_sata, a native SATA driver for ck804/mcp55 based chipsets, will > likely be integrated into nevada in the coming month or so. > > If you''d like to get early access to the driver and give me feedback, > please contact me directly. > > Marty > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >