eon 0.60 on HP n36L

[Patrick]

Hi again,

i got myself a nice treat with the HP n36L as André showed us its running eon.

As 4 Drives weren't enogh for my media, i planted another drive in the "optical-drive" slot.

My Question is about the "hd" command showing this:

Device Serial Vendor Model Rev Temperature
------ ------ ------ ----- ---- -----------
c0t0d0p0 WMAZA3173084 ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M AB51 32 C (89 F)
c0t1d0p0 WMAZA3176921 ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M AB51 32 C (89 F)
c0t2d0p0 WMAZA3115748 ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M AB51 32 C (89 F)
c0t3d0p0 WMAZA3110852 ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M AB51 31 C (87 F)
c1t0d0p0 Kingston DataTraveler 410 PMAP None
c2d1p0 D20EARS-00MVWB0=_____WD-WMAZA3178659 9 ___WD-WMAZA3178659 - None


the 5th drive, or better that sata port does not support informations the other sas-ports do. As my system is running und the zpool creation went fine i do not have much to complain, or do i? Is this an sata port or sata driver issue?

I appreciate any help on this ;O))

Patrick

[Andre Lue]

Hi pkn,

Not sure why but it's probably something more to do with hd

one spec seem to say its a sata port but other findings contradict maybe mini-sas?
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13716_na/13716_na.html#Technical%20Specifications

What kind port is the 5th connected port?

[Patrick]

dre2kse ,

the sheet says its an internal 5-port sata, the '6th' is esata to the back.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamasrepus/5205136774
"The four drive bays are driven by a SAS port (not highlighted in the photo), which multiplexes all the disks onto one cable."

So these are fine, just the "normal" sata-port that is supposed to provide the optocal drives is kind of messing up. I guess, HP does not support an 5-disc usage ;O(.

Post by Andre Lue
Hi pkn,
Not sure why but it's probably something more to do
with hd
one spec seem to say its a sata port but other
findings contradict maybe mini-sas?
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13716_na
/13716_na.html#Technical%20Specifications
What kind port is the 5th connected port?

[Guido Glaus]

This AMD Southport chip can run the disks in 3 different modes

1. port 1-6 - all IDE
2. port 1-4 AHCI, 5&6 IDE
3. port 1-6 - all AHCI

HP has choosen to use mode 2. from above and hides the possibility to change that.

But there is a patch floating around (look for O41_AHCI.ZIP) which enables this part in the BIOS and you can set all 6 ports to AHCI.

This enabled my systemdisk (int. port) to run error free scrubs since then and shows the drive in the same way as the others (except the temp :-) ).

Device Serial Vendor Model Rev Temperature
------ ------ ------ ----- ---- -----------
c2t0d0p0 H7J1CZ914779 ATA SAMSUNG HD204UI 0001 26 C (78 F)
c2t1d0p0 H7J1CZ914785 ATA SAMSUNG HD204UI 0001 27 C (80 F)
c2t2d0p0 H7J1CZ914787 ATA SAMSUNG HD204UI 0001 26 C (78 F)
c2t3d0p0 H7J1CZ914782 ATA SAMSUNG HD204UI 0001 26 C (78 F)
c2t5d0p0 45SE945B6682 ATA SAMSUNG MMCRE64G 901Q 255 C (491 F)

[Andre Lue]

Great news, thanks for the feedback gidi

For others with the HP n36L here's a link explaining the rom update mentioned
http://terabyt.es/2011/07/02/nas-build-guide-hp-n36l-microserver-with-nexenta-napp-it/