Comments on: Areca are liars: The ARC-1300ix 16 does not support Solaris

By: Jonathan Matthews

Jonathan Matthews — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:30:48 +0000

Here’s one way to do UIO-to-PCIe, with diagrams, using the AOC-USAS-L8i as an example: http://blog.agdunn.net/?p=391

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:29:04 +0000

Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i & AOC-USAS-L8i

i am using this controller too with opensolaris an solaris 10/09
They both work wonderfull.
The only thing you have to do is replacing the “steel” on the PCB with one with screws on the other side. therefore you can use some old “steel” from unused old NICs. nothing to place backwards. Just the screws on the steel are on the opposite side.
output from an USASLP
bash-3.00# raidctl -l 0
Controller Type Version
—————————————————————-
c0 LSI_1068E 1.26.00.00
bash-3.00#

regards
daniel

By: Rick Wesson

Rick Wesson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:40:34 +0000

We just built a opensolaris JBOD believing in the Area docs for the ARC-1300. We purchased 2 cards and designed our entire platform arround their offering.

Support at Areca keep telling us “next month.” I’ve sworn off Areca and our company will NEVER purchase another of their devices.

By: Dirk Raabe

Dirk Raabe — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:04:45 +0000

Sorry for the long delay,

yes the 8-port Fujitsu (S26361-F3257-L8)works with nexenta out of the box (equipped with “simple-raid” RAID1-Firmware) Later I flashed the “pure” Initiator-Target-Firmware (no RAID-Funktionalty), but I have to use a other Mainboard for flashing, it did not run in the Intel-Serverboard.

you can contact me (d.raabe@mittelhessen.de)

greets Dirk

By: EmilP

EmilP — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:10:08 +0000

Hi Dirk!
Did you get the Fujitsu card (S26361-F3257-L8) to work with open/solaris?

I’m currently facing the problem with finding a reasonable card myself, and these cards seems to be available relatively cheap.

Best regards, Emil

By: A.C.Denth

A.C.Denth — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:37:57 +0000

What about an LSI SAS1078 based card? The LSI documentation says that it is supported in Solaris x86 (as of 2007) but that doesn’t mean it is supported in OpenSolaris.

The Intel AFCSASRISER card is based on the 1078 and costs about as much as a SASUC8I if you also consider the price for the cables (which is included with this card according to the specs).

It is really strange that this IC is not listed in LSIs official ICs list as it seems to be an enhancement of 1068/1068E (E means PCIe version).

The riser card comes with a DDR2 memory slot for cache. Do you have to put a module into this slot to run it or will it run without memory. I want to use JBOD mode which makes cache a bit superfluous I believe.

By: Sometimes giving in is easier | Testing 1, 2, 3

Sometimes giving in is easier | Testing 1, 2, 3 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:18:31 +0000

[...] I note with grim satisfaction that Areca has still failed to produce a Solaris driver for it’s ARC-1300ix series, here’s a list of PCI-Express cards known [...]

By: TimC

TimC — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:24:03 +0000

FYI, I was the guinea pig and the Intel LSI based card works just fine with opensolaris. You just have to flash it with the 3081 IT firmware. For whatever reason, Intel doesn’t appear to actually supply IT firmware themselves (that I could find).

Intel SASUC8I

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:28:09 +0000

How about a QLogic FC HBA, such as QLA2460 and a JBOD enclosure, such as this Xyratex,
http://www.xyratex.com/products/storage-systems/storage-RA-1602-1216-JBD.aspx

By: Curse of the server | Testing 1, 2, 3

Curse of the server | Testing 1, 2, 3 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:14:36 +0000

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