Hello All, I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIA.cfm?IPMI=Y also the LSI HBA SAS 9211-8i http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas9211-8i/index.html rpool = 2vdev mirror tank = 2 x 2vdev mirror. For the future I want to have the option to expand up to 12 x 2vdev mirror. After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? Can zfs handle AHCI for tank? Thx for helping. -- Regarrds Alexander
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Alexander Lesle wrote:> Hello All, > > I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a > Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this > Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIA.cfm?IPMI=Y > also the LSI HBA SAS 9211-8i > http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas9211-8i/index.html > > rpool = 2vdev mirror > tank = 2 x 2vdev mirror. For the future I want to have the option to > expand up to 12 x 2vdev mirror. > > After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set > SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. > > Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? > Can zfs handle AHCI for tank? > > Thx for helping. >You definitely want to use AHCI and not the legacy IDE. AHCI enables: - disk hotswap. - NCQ (Native Command Queuing) to execute multiple commands at the same time. -- Pasi
Hello Pasi, thx for the quick answer. Its sounds fine because with the Asus Board and at Nexenta always I get a message that my rpool is degraded when I set AHCI. Additionally with the LSI HBA the board doesnt boot by set AHCI. am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010 um 20:53 hat <Pasi K?rkk?inen> u.a. in mid:20101216195305.GZ2754 at reaktio.net geschrieben:> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Alexander Lesle wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a >> Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this >> Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIA.cfm?IPMI=Y >> also the LSI HBA SAS 9211-8i >> http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas9211-8i/index.html >> >> rpool = 2vdev mirror >> tank = 2 x 2vdev mirror. For the future I want to have the option to >> expand up to 12 x 2vdev mirror. >> >> After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set >> SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. >> >> Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? >> Can zfs handle AHCI for tank? >> >> Thx for helping. >>> You definitely want to use AHCI and not the legacy IDE.> AHCI enables: > - disk hotswap. > - NCQ (Native Command Queuing) to execute multiple commands at the same time.> -- Pasi-- Schoenen Abend wuenscht Alexander mailto:groups at tierarzt-mueller.de eMail geschrieben mit: The Bat! 4.0.38 unter Windows Pro
AHCI or IDE is at the device level not zfs level, as such it''s a property of the OS layer. I suspect all OSs that zfs run on support AHCI directly (OpenSolaris do). Always use it instead of IDE emulation (which is what is happening what you select IDE in the firmware, it is purely for old OS support with no direct SATA support) HTH, Deano -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Lesle Sent: 16 December 2010 19:43 To: zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] AHCI or IDE? Hello All, I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIA.cfm?IPMIY also the LSI HBA SAS 9211-8i http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/interna l/sas9211-8i/index.html rpool = 2vdev mirror tank = 2 x 2vdev mirror. For the future I want to have the option to expand up to 12 x 2vdev mirror. After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? Can zfs handle AHCI for tank? Thx for helping. -- Regarrds Alexander _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
> From: zfs-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Lesle > > After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set > SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. > > Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? > Can zfs handle AHCI for tank?Yes, and yes. Always use AHCI over Legacy, for any OS that is even remotely close to modern.
On Dec 16, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Alexander Lesle wrote:> Hello Pasi, > > thx for the quick answer. > > Its sounds fine because with the Asus Board and at Nexenta always I > get a message that my rpool is degraded when I set AHCI.That is very unusual. Please send the output of "zpool status -xv"> Additionally with the LSI HBA the board doesnt boot by set AHCI.This sounds like a crappy BIOS or HBA firmware. Also, it could be some combination of BIOS settings that confuse the issue. -- richard> > am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010 um 20:53 hat <Pasi K?rkk?inen> u.a. > in mid:20101216195305.GZ2754 at reaktio.net geschrieben: >> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Alexander Lesle wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a >>> Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this >>> Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIA.cfm?IPMI=Y >>> also the LSI HBA SAS 9211-8i >>> http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas9211-8i/index.html >>> >>> rpool = 2vdev mirror >>> tank = 2 x 2vdev mirror. For the future I want to have the option to >>> expand up to 12 x 2vdev mirror. >>> >>> After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set >>> SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. >>> >>> Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? >>> Can zfs handle AHCI for tank? >>> >>> Thx for helping. >>> > >> You definitely want to use AHCI and not the legacy IDE. > >> AHCI enables: >> - disk hotswap. >> - NCQ (Native Command Queuing) to execute multiple commands at the same time. > > >> -- Pasi > > > -- > Schoenen Abend wuenscht > Alexander > mailto:groups at tierarzt-mueller.de > eMail geschrieben mit: The Bat! 4.0.38 > unter Windows Pro > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Hello Richard Elling and List, thx for your answer. I have this problems when I want to install and use Nexenta 3.0.4. I have wrote that I have bought the Supermicro Board and when all items are here I want to make a new installation. I can not send now zpool status -xv. Maybe you have right that the BIOS is crappy. Before I install the HBA at supermicro board I will make a reset with the HBA. on Dezember, 19 2010, 19:55 <Richard Elling> wrote in [1]:> On Dec 16, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Alexander Lesle wrote:>> Hello Pasi, >> >> thx for the quick answer. >> >> Its sounds fine because with the Asus Board and at Nexenta always I >> get a message that my rpool is degraded when I set AHCI.> That is very unusual. Please send the output of "zpool status -xv">> Additionally with the LSI HBA the board doesnt boot by set AHCI.> This sounds like a crappy BIOS or HBA firmware. Also, it could be > some combination of BIOS settings that confuse the issue. > -- richard>> >> am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010 um 20:53 hat <Pasi K?rkk?inen> u.a. >> in mid:20101216195305.GZ2754 at reaktio.net geschrieben: >>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Alexander Lesle wrote: >>>> Hello All, >>>> >>>> I want to build a home file and media server now. After experiment with a >>>> Asus Board and running in unsolve problems I have bought this >>>> Supermicro Board X8SIA-F with Intel i3-560 and 8 GB Ram >>>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIA.cfm?IPMI=Y >>>> also the LSI HBA SAS 9211-8i >>>> http://lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas9211-8i/index.html >>>> >>>> rpool = 2vdev mirror >>>> tank = 2 x 2vdev mirror. For the future I want to have the option to >>>> expand up to 12 x 2vdev mirror. >>>> >>>> After reading the board manual I found at page 4-9 where I can set >>>> SATA#1 from IDE to AHCI. >>>> >>>> Can zfs handle AHCI for rpool? >>>> Can zfs handle AHCI for tank? >>>> >>>> Thx for helping. >>>> >> >>> You definitely want to use AHCI and not the legacy IDE. >> >>> AHCI enables: >>> - disk hotswap. >>> - NCQ (Native Command Queuing) to execute multiple commands at the same time. >> >> >>> -- Pasi >> >> >> -- >> Schoenen Abend wuenscht >> Alexander >> mailto:groups at tierarzt-mueller.de >> eMail geschrieben mit: The Bat! 4.0.38 >> unter Windows Pro >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss-- Best Regards Alexander Dezember, 20 2010 ........ [1] mid:39B246AC-A158-4AED-A161-7BFA268587AB at gmail.com ........