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Could it be you did not put in the sas address? I encountered before no sas address will not get the hard disk recognized.

Use Macrium reflect....

One thing strange. I changed my disc size from GPT back to MBR Disk with Dynamic. Then the data was send to the SAN at a much faster rate. Not sure why....hmmm.. If I use 64K for GPT, it will be slow. For MBR, it's very fast.... I will be getting roughly 160MB/s. From SSD to the SAN, I can...

Ah... You point me to the right direction. How would I change the block sizes for the hard disk? I am currently testing it with 5 X 500 Gb HDD and a SSD L2ARC and ZIL. But it's still running slowly. When I have the SAN with fibre running, i have to present it to my windows 7 as a GPT disk. I...

Correct. My PCIe is running at x4 and the card negotiated a bandwidth of 2.5GT/s. The processor have hypertreading. 4 cores with 8 threads. Would it still be 4 cores? I initially bought this board as a SAN and I want to implement it as a Openindiana SAN with Fibre. But it's running too slow...

Hi, the fibre cable is plug directly. Point to point connection. I have bought a 4gbps switch and it's yet to come. I did not disable to write cache. How would i be able to do that? Thanks.

Hi, I am using X8SIL-F main board with Intel Xeon X3440. I have registered 32GB Ram and have a HP SAS Expander v2.06 with IBM M1015 in IT mode. I also have a Qlogic QLE2460 card inside it. When I install Openindiana into this machine, the machine seems to be very sluggish and slow. I am unsure...

Will it be possible for me to loop the HP SAS Expander SF-8088 cable to another PMC8388 card? How many hard disk can it support this way? I have an IBM M1015 with flashed with LSI 9211-8i firmware in IT mode.

can anyone help with the log files? thanks in advance.

1 X M1015 working in IT mode 9211-8i IT Mode 1 X HP SAS Expander 6 X Hard Disc WD RE4 1TB in Raidz1 1 X 80Gb Boot Disc installed OpenIndiana 151a6 Installed Open Indiana with Napp-IT 0.8f 1 X Intel S5000PSL 32 GB Ram ECC 1 X QLE 2460 4Gb Fibre Installed everything. My other machine...

Don't flame me if this doesn't work. I am a newbie with Linux / OpenSolaris. I am still wondering why I get such a low speed of data coming out of SAN. I have the data going into the SAN very quickly up to 650MB/s.... Still testing. Taking a lot of my time. Also I am getting a lot of MPT_SAS...

Hi Guys.... I managed to squeeze in some time to do the test again. How to.. 1) Install Open Indiana. Please use install guide if you don't know how to install it. I used OpenIndiana 151a Desktop edition and upgrade later as I am a newbie in OpenIndiana and needs the KDE/Gnome. 2) After...

Thank you very much for your post. I finally found out what is the problem affecting me. It seems that my QLE 2460 after i enable it, it would hang OpenIndiana because it's using the QLC driver. When I connected the fibre crossed, it would make it work properly and thus faulting the QLE2460...

How to unload the QL driver and load the QLT driver? Sorry mate. learning here.

No, I have Tx to Rx on both side. Which i carefully see before plugging in. I swapped both side Tx to Tx, my Openindiana doesn't hang.