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Went to reboot my Solaris 11 box today after finishing copying data from old pool to new, everything is a-ok.
Upon reboot, half my disks don't come back. Do some digging, find out one of my 1068Es (AOC-USAS-L8i) is not being detected by BIOS, at all. LEDs on it flicker nastily upon power-up, and I'm pretty sure I can hear the power-supply on the card shorting/sparking as it tries to come up. Now all the LEDs on it are frozen, so it's most likely good and dead.
Going to try to RMA it (not expecting much...I bought it off eBay brand-new in box), but I already put in an order for the Intel version, Intel SASU8CI. $160 out-of-pocket, but them's the breaks.
Summary: If you want a 1068E card, buy the Intel built one. My first L8i is still running strong, but the second lasted about a week.
Upon reboot, half my disks don't come back. Do some digging, find out one of my 1068Es (AOC-USAS-L8i) is not being detected by BIOS, at all. LEDs on it flicker nastily upon power-up, and I'm pretty sure I can hear the power-supply on the card shorting/sparking as it tries to come up. Now all the LEDs on it are frozen, so it's most likely good and dead.
Going to try to RMA it (not expecting much...I bought it off eBay brand-new in box), but I already put in an order for the Intel version, Intel SASU8CI. $160 out-of-pocket, but them's the breaks.
Summary: If you want a 1068E card, buy the Intel built one. My first L8i is still running strong, but the second lasted about a week.