Dell branded storage controller for ZFS file-server | Advice requested

[David Gwynne]

> On 23 Jan 2015, at 11:02 pm, Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> scary stuff .. so just to be clear:
> 
> - LSI SAS hba => disks DONT spin up
> - h310 in jbod mode => disks DONT spin up
> - h330 in jbod mode => disks work fine ?

h330 doing jbod is a supported config from dell, so if it doesnt work should be able to have a little tantrum and get them to fix it or replace bits till it does work.

> 
> Note that currently dell's web configurator, only sells h330 with r730(xd) not r720(xd) .. The r720 comes with h310 or h710 afaict

yes.

> Note 2, Illumos people are able to pass a driver parameter to spin up crappy dell disks .. check 
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2013/06/sort/from/page/4/entry/15:430/20130617155143:52F0F7EA-D787-11E2-84A9-87C6F7D228D8/

you can patch your kernels as much as you want to, but you cant fix the bios in the machine. if you want to boot off disks like that in a jbod config you'll need ones that spin up when they get power.

dlg