Recent content by tacomel1

You're correct - the throughput will still be limited by the expander. In fact the version of the case and expander I have (one generation behind: here) lists the older generation of cards. Looks like they've updated the case and this one has the SAS2 expander (and lists the AOC-USAS2-* cards)...

I'll answer myself in case this will be of use. The replacement of the 1068E to SAS2008 card went pretty much as expected. The major difference was that the device names in Solaris changed from something like "c1t8d0" to something like "c3t5000CCA369C267E0d0". Therefore my printout of which...

This question concerns a newly purchased AOC-USAS-L8E (LSI SAS2008) and a Hitachi 3TB drive. When the card is initializing, it scans through all the drives but it does *not* see the 3TB drive. (It reports the bay as empty.) This is the same as observed within the "SAS Topology" screen in the...

My current setup: * Supermicro SC846E1 - LSI SASX36 expander, 24 drive bays * Supermicro X8DTN+-F motherboard * Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i HBA (LSI 1068E) - IT mode (JBOD) * Solaris 10 update 9 (09/10) OS * Mix of SATA HDDs in four different ZFS raidz2's I recently purchased a 3 TB drive...