I''m wanting to fire up a new SSD for an L2ARC on a ZFS box I''ve put together, and was looking at some of the new drives. Many of the faster ones, with great read speeds, are SATA-6G compatible, and I''m wondering if any of you has gotten these cards to work. In particular, the Asus U3S6: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813995004 And the SIIG SC-SA0E12-S1: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816150028&cm_re=sata_6g-_-16-150-028-_-Product Does anyone have an opinion, or some experience? Thanks in advance! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, valrhona at gmail.com <valrhona at gmail.com> wrote:> Does anyone have an opinion, or some experience? Thanks in advance!Both of them support AHCI, so they should work for SATA 6G. The USB3.0 and PATA may not work however. -B -- Brandon High : bhigh at freaks.com
Thanks! I just need the SATA part for the SSD serving as my L2ARC. Could care less about PATA, and have no USB3 peripherals, anyway. I''ll let everyone know how it works! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
If these 6 Gb/s controllers are based on the Marvell part I would test them thoroughly before deployment - those chips have been problematic. A PCI-e SSD card is likely much faster than any SATA SSD. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, James Van Artsdalen <james-opensolaris at jrv.org> wrote:> If these 6 Gb/s controllers are based on the Marvell part I would test them thoroughly before deployment - those chips have been problematic.The Marvell 88SE9123 was the troublemaker, and it''s not available anymore. The 88SE9120, 88SE9125 and 88SE9128 are the fixed versions. -B -- Brandon High : bhigh at freaks.com
On 07/ 9/10 09:58 AM, Brandon High wrote:> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, James Van Artsdalen > <james-opensolaris at jrv.org> wrote: >> If these 6 Gb/s controllers are based on the Marvell part I would test them thoroughly before deployment - those chips have been problematic. > > The Marvell 88SE9123 was the troublemaker, and it''s not available > anymore. The 88SE9120, 88SE9125 and 88SE9128 are the fixed versions.Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on this chipset (at least according to the product pages [*]). v. [*] http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/ad2sa6gpx1.asp
My advice would be to NOT use the AD2SA6GPX1 HBA for building an opensolaris storage box. Although the AHCI driver will load, the drives are not visible to the OS, and device configuration fails according to ''cfgadm -al''. I have a couple of them that are now residing in a linux box as I was unable to get them to work with OSOL b134 or Nexenta 3.0rc1. I did post in the forums over there, but received no response. I also submitted a bug, but have not had any response at all. I haven''t gone upstream yet as I have been distracted by other things. I have not tried them with Solaris 10. Matt On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com>wrote:> On 07/ 9/10 09:58 AM, Brandon High wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, James Van Artsdalen >> <james-opensolaris at jrv.org> wrote: >> >>> If these 6 Gb/s controllers are based on the Marvell part I would test >>> them thoroughly before deployment - those chips have been problematic. >>> >> >> The Marvell 88SE9123 was the troublemaker, and it''s not available >> anymore. The 88SE9120, 88SE9125 and 88SE9128 are the fixed versions. >> > > Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially > with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA > based on this chipset (at least according to the product pages [*]). > > > v. > > [*] http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/ad2sa6gpx1.asp > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >-- Matt Urbanowski Graduate Student 5-51 Medical Sciences Building Dept. Of Cell Biology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100709/dbe4b476/attachment.html>
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com>wrote:> Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially > with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA > based on this chipset (at least according to the product pages [*]). >http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marvell+9123+problems The problems seem to be mostly with the PATA controller that''s built in. Regardless, Marvell no longer offers the 9123. Any vendor offering cards based on it is probably using chips bought as surplus or for recycling. -B -- Brandon High : bhigh at freaks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100709/3f5960af/attachment.html>
Agreed! I''m not sure why Addonics is selling them, given the history of problems. At any rate, I''m glad that I didn''t pay anything for the 3 three that I have. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Brandon High <bhigh at freaks.com> wrote:> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com>wrote: > >> Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially >> with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA >> based on this chipset (at least according to the product pages [*]). >> > > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marvell+9123+problems > > The problems seem to be mostly with the PATA controller that''s built in. > Regardless, Marvell no longer offers the 9123. Any vendor offering cards > based on it is probably using chips bought as surplus or for recycling. > > -B > > -- > Brandon High : bhigh at freaks.com > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > >-- Matt Urbanowski Graduate Student 5-51 Medical Sciences Building Dept. Of Cell Biology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100709/72c5043a/attachment.html>
This thread from Marc Bevand and his blog linked therein might have some useful alternative suggestions. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 I''ve bookmarked it because it''s quite a handy summary and I hope he keeps updating it with new info -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Graham McArdle <graham.mcardle <at> ccfe.ac.uk> writes:> > This thread from Marc Bevand and his blog linked therein might have someuseful alternative suggestions.> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 > I''ve bookmarked it because it''s quite a handy summary and I hope he keepsupdating it with new info Yes I will! -mrbsun
Brandon High wrote:> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com > <mailto:Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com>> wrote: > > Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, > especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system > with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on this chipset (at least according to the > product pages [*]). > > > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marvell+9123+problems > > The problems seem to be mostly with the PATA controller that''s built in. > Regardless, Marvell no longer offers the 9123. Any vendor offering cards > based on it is probably using chips bought as surplus or for recycling.I spent some time going through the past news about various motherboard vendors delaying new products because of the PATA issue. According to the Marvell PR there seems to be no issue with the SATA side of the chip. Other than that (and the possible PCIe x1 scaling issue with SATA III) there should be no problem with the card itself. However, the card does not work in OpenSolaris yet because of: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6967746 v.
Well, it is good to hear that there likely isn''t a patent problem with the SATA functionality of the card. Hopefully the filed bug will be addressed, and support added to the AHCI driver. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com>wrote:> Brandon High wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal <Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com<mailto: >> Vladimir.Kotal at sun.com>> wrote: >> >> Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, >> especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system >> with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on this chipset (at least according to the >> product pages [*]). >> >> >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marvell+9123+problems >> >> The problems seem to be mostly with the PATA controller that''s built in. >> Regardless, Marvell no longer offers the 9123. Any vendor offering cards >> based on it is probably using chips bought as surplus or for recycling. >> > > I spent some time going through the past news about various motherboard > vendors delaying new products because of the PATA issue. According to the > Marvell PR there seems to be no issue with the SATA side of the chip. Other > than that (and the possible PCIe x1 scaling issue with SATA III) there > should be no problem with the card itself. > > However, the card does not work in OpenSolaris yet because of: > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6967746 > > > v. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >-- Matt Urbanowski Graduate Student 5-51 Medical Sciences Building Dept. Of Cell Biology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100712/8f457206/attachment.html>
Thanks for all of the help. I now have the Asus U3S6 installed. There are two SATA ports on the board, and I''ve plugged one into the CD-ROM drive, and the other for my SSD being used as an L2ARC. Upon booting the machine, I get the message: Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter, BIOS version 0.0.1012 It then successfully lists both the SSD and the CD-ROM drive. I then boot EON 0.600 from the CD, which does just fine. After logging in as root, I run "format" and now it doesn''t see the SSD. Yet it booted the operating system from the CD, plugged into the same SATA card!?!? This makes no sense to me. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to possibly get this working? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
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2010-Jul-20 19:39 UTC
[zfs-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
So I''ve tried both the ASUS U3S6, and the Koutech IO-PESA-A230R, recommended by the helpful blog: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 In BOTH cases, the SSD appears in the card''s BIOS screen at bootup, so that the card sees it and recognizes it properly. I''m running EON 0.60 (SNV130), and once I log in as root and run "format", the SSD Is not there at all. I just wanted a cheap card to add to my server to run my SSD as an L2ARC, so nothing needs to be fancy. Is there anything I can do? I''m really stuck now... Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org