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Solaris Backblaze?

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winston84

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Has anyone tried getting Solaris to play nice with a backblaze storage pod? The SIL3124 port multipliers work fine when connected to the onboard ICH10 sata ports, but connected to an IBM M1015 (like an LSI 9240) only the first drive on the multiplier shows up. Tried flashing on the latest LSI 9240 fw, same thing. JBOD is enabled.

They work fine in linux, but was hoping to go ZFS. 40 drives into the port multipliers then to an 8 port sata HBA. Was thinking of trying either an LSI 9211 or an Intel SASUC8I. Ideas on if one of those might work?
 
I wasn't aware that SAS controllers are supposed to work with SATA port multipliers in the first place.
 
To odditory's point, maybe try a SAS expander instead of a cheapo port multiplier? Otherwise you are doing the equivalent of trying to stick an AMD CPU in an Intel socket.
 
I know that openSolaris supported SATA port multipliers, but I wasn't aware that it had been pushed into Solaris.
 
Solaris 11 Express supports port multipliers through a select set of chipsets. I've tested SIL3726 multipliers with an AMD SB700 chipset, using the following:
Norco DS-1500
ASUS M3A78

running cfgadm while the disks are connected, but unconfigured gives:
Code: 
sata0/3                        sata-pmult   connected    configured   ok
sata0/3.0                      disk         connected    unconfigured unknown
sata0/3.1                      disk         connected    unconfigured unknown
sata0/3.2                      disk         connected    unconfigured unknown
sata0/3.3                      disk         connected    unconfigured unknown
sata0/3.4                      pmult-port   empty        unconfigured ok
Note that port 3.4 does not have a disk connected.

From posts that I have read, AMD chipsets using the SB7x0 southbridges should have the functionality enabled.

There have been other indications that port multipliers also work with Intel ICH9, and possibly ICH10 Chipsets, but I haven't been able to verify that.
 
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