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Marcin [Visitor] in response to: SASsy lip from the LSI 1068e

Marcin [Visitor] — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:16:06 +0000

Hi,
I have bought similar motherboard with the same controller. That link is broken maybe you know where i can get that. I tried to contact supermicro.com but they can't give me that :[
Best Regards,
Marcin

Ken [Visitor] in response to: Solaris 10 sendmail

Ken [Visitor] — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:38:23 +0000

# svcadm refresh smtp:sendmail
did not work for me.

# svcadm restart smtp:sendmail
did work.

Joe "Floid" Kanowitz [Visitor] in response to: SASsy lip from the LSI 1068e

Joe "Floid" Kanowitz [Visitor] — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:06:52 +0000

@Yestine: More than a little late, but having just noticed you in the comments here - if you run into this with a LSI 106x-family product, try forcing your disks to 1.5Gbps / "SATA 150" [on SATA devices, normally requires a DOS utility from the disk vendor] or vice-versa.

IIRC most newer firmwares for these controllers force one rate (the slower one?) with SATA because some unknown devices weren't negotiating properly, while most SATA disks now ship forcing the *other* rate for similar reasons. Situation normal. Unfortunately I can't find the reference now to confirm (and make sure I'm not backwards on the rates).

Matt [Member] in response to: Full-circle because of ZFS.

Matt [Member] — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:41:58 +0000

Solaris doesn't do horribly with low amounts of RAM. But side-by-side memory usage is higher when you actually start using it. Granted, this is all from my personal experience and not at all a scientific test.

Sriram Narayanan [Visitor] in response to: Full-circle because of ZFS.

Sriram Narayanan [Visitor] — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:07:28 +0000

I run Solaris 10 on a box with 1 GB RAM, and serve a 2.72 TB RAIDZ to an office full of people, haven't faced any problems at all.

Yestine [Visitor] in response to: SASsy lip from the LSI 1068e

Yestine [Visitor] — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:54:13 +0000

After much trouble trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Ubuntu 9.04, CentOS 5.3 and failing miserably each time, I finally found this post which suggests a direction to head in.

However, after flashing the BIOS, both the LSI controller (in IT RAID mode) and Ubuntu installer (using mptsas) are unable to detect the presence of any drives. I'm using 4x1TB SATA hard disks so is there a problem with the controller not being able to support such huge sizes?

Freaky [Visitor] in response to: Marvell MV88SX6081 troubles under newer kernels...

Freaky [Visitor] — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:07 +0000

Hi, do you happen to know if this patch made it into the kernel finally? Seem to still have the issue with 2.6.29. Unfortunately we use the box as a production SAN with 8TB of storage, so I can't easily migrate the data and turn it off to test.

The issue was still there with a 2.6.29 prerelease (I think, guys that supplied the hardware tried a newer kernel but it was still in debian beta).

Brian [Visitor] in response to: SASsy lip from the LSI 1068e

Brian [Visitor] — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:36:18 +0000

Thanks Matt! I was having much the same trouble on an X8DT3-F when I found your blog. With your instructions I was able to install and boot off SAS attached disks.

One note, Supermicro does have new drivers on the site than the link above. The BIOS of the newer packages failed but the firmware failed a checksum. Using Matt's link above caused no problems.

Brian