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The Coraid chassis are sweet. I've got 3 of them, with an expander in 2 of them.

Have you tried forcing the x8 slot to x4 in the BIOS? Play with all of the PCI-E settings in the BIOS and see if anything changes.

If using samba, you'll need to configure separate instances for each interface you wish to serve since you want to limit the shares per interface. smb.conf has support for multiple interfaces, but only at the global level, not at the share level.

Also, make sure that you have this in your /etc/rc.conf: zfs_enable="YES"

Your pool isn't mounted, as shown by df. So when you're doing dd, you're writing to the mount directory, but nothing is mounted there, so you're filling the root partition up instead of the pool. What's the output of zfs get mountpoint?

I've had some boards that I had to mess with the BIOS settings quite a bit in seemingly unrelated ways to get the USAS to show up. I'm assuming that you've tried different PCI-E slots? Have you tried installing a PCI video card? Sometimes boards want to use whatever's in a PCI-E slot as a...

It's a FreeBSD thing. Solaris uses FMA, FreeBSD has no port of FMA, but does have devd. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134491

Protip: hot spares are non-existant in FreeBSD at this point. Manual intervention is required. If you need real hot spares, you'll have to use Solaris.

The performance is pretty much awesome. I've got 15 dicks in 3 raidz1s, striped. Here are my bonnie++ results: Version 1.96 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec...

I'm having problems getting my drives to show up that are attached to either of my expanders. I'm using an LSI 1068E card, connected to the external port of the HP Expander. I've also tried hooking up using the internal ports to my AOC-USAS-L8i cards, and to a new 9200-8E card. The 1068e/USAS...

From further googling, it looks like that the LSI SAS3801E card won't work over the 8088 ports connected to the expander. Expander shows up, but drives don't. Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced HBA with external 8088 ports that will work connected to the expanders on their external ports?

Good point. Done. This thread should be deleted.

I'm having a problem where my SAS expander is appearing, however, none of the disks connected to it are showing up. I have the following configuration: (2) Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i cards, connected to 15 drives LSI SAS3801E card flashed to IT mode (2) HP SAS Expanders, in separate cases...

I'm having a problem where my SAS expander is appearing, however, none of the disks connected to it are showing up. I have the following configuration: (2) Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i cards, connected to 15 drives LSI 1068E card flashed to IT mode (2) HP SAS Expanders, in separate cases...