D20 - M4158 Marvell Controller, SAS Drives Linux OS

I am trying to get RHEL5.4 to recogize my SAS drives on a D20 (M4158) ThinkStation. It seems that the RAID on the Marvell is causing an issue. I have 3 disk drives, 1 SATA and 2 SAS. I DO NOT have a RAID configured for the MArvell controller. I have the SATA drive connected to the black IDE controller ports. The OS is installed on this drive.The 2 SAS drives are connected to the blue ports on the Marvell controller. I have the Lenovo Linux drivers for RHEL5.4 installed.
On boot, the BIOS sees all of the drives, the Marvell sees both of the SAS drives, it boots to the OS on the SATA drive fine. BUT - when I log in the SAS drives do not show up when I do a lsscsi and there are no block device files for them in /dev. IF I disconnect both SAS drives from the blue ports on the Marvell controller and plug them back in, the OS creates the block devices. lsscsi show that they are available, I can mount them, read and write data to them. When I reboot, they are gone. I can unplu/plug them in again, remount, everything is fine. How do I get the BIOS and OS to "talk" and have them available on startup?

welcome to the forum!
to confirm that the marvell controller is enabled, you'll find it in the BIOS under the 'Devices' tab > Marvell SATA/SAS controller.   this should be set to [Enabled] along with the option ROM scan directly below it.
you won't see any SAS drives in your OS without the marvell drivers installed.   for this i would recommend installing your SATA drive on a black socket and the SAS drives on the blue sockets.   once your OS is installed then you should be able to install the array.
at any time you should be able to configure the array using the ROM controller option at POST.   the key combination to access it if ctrl+M if memory serves.   full instructions can be found in the D20 HMM: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-72117
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Is it possible to upgrade the Mac Pro with SCSI/SAS drives?

Hi guys I am considering to move on to a Mac Pro from my old PC.
The Mac Pro enclosure is quite unique in its hard drive holders as no cables are used and all drives are connected with a plugin mechanism.
So I am curious if that will allow me to upgrade to a SCSI/SAS storage system which requires cable connections between drives and the SCSI/SAS card on the PCI-E slot. I dont know if this will be possible with the Mac Pro enclosure.
Has anyone tried to do this？
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The connectors for SATA drives can be used with SAS drives. However, the controller needs to be SAS compatible. I have never installed a SAS drive in the Mac Pro bay to see what happens. If some one has a SAS drive and wants to try this I would be interested in the results.
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Details on the ARC-1680 can be found here:
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcietosas1680series.htm
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P35 Neo2-FR / Marvell Controller problem. - DVD/CD Burning

I think this is hardware related and more like limitation of the model rather than one faulty motherboard.
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Does my macpro work with SAS drive?

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Does my macpro take SAS drives at all? or it can only support sata?

You need a controller, such as $799 Apple Pro RAID or 3rd party.
Comparing SAS to SATA, but doesn't take into account the VelociRaptor
http://www.barefeats.com/harper13.html
WD VelociRaptor.
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http://www.barefeats.com/hard106.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD3000GLFS/
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There are recent thread on using SAS.

Plz Help sas drive What should i do?

So I have an awesome late 2009 macbook pro 13.3", with a 2.53 GHz intel core duo processor, 500GB 5400rpm HDD, 4GB ram. I just ordered an 8GB ram upgrade from newegg, because a lot of stuff I do with my computer takes ALOT of resources. Im also looking at HDD upgrades as well, to speed up that end. I was looking at a 7200 rpm until I came across an SAS drive. It's 2.5", looks identical to SATA but at 15,000 rpm!! upon looking at my system profiler I noticed an area labeled SAS. When I looked into it, it just said that no SAS "devices" are attached. So does that mean my computer does in fact have an SAS controller? Can I use an SAS drive instead of my SATA? Please anything is helpful, I am a tiny but time constrained.

SSD sounds really nice, and ive even found one cheaper than the hdd i was planning on getting. Now i realize its only a 40GB SSD but it would only be for my OS. My question is would this fit in my computer?
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Xserve (early 2008) with SAS drives

Greeting All,
Can Xserve (early 2008) add SAS driver in any bay of the chassis? Or it will like MacPro need add RAID card in it.
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Yes, SAS and SATA Apple Drive Modules (ADMs) can be mixed in Xserve.
If you want hardware RAID, you need the add-on card.
Quoth the current Xserve technical page "Three independent hot-plug drive bays with support for SATA or SAS drives; support for up to 3TB of hot-plug internal storage using the following Apple Drive Modules:
80GB 7200-rpm SATA with 8MB disk cache
1TB 7200-rpm SATA with 32MB disk cache
73GB 15,000-rpm SAS with 16MB disk cache
300GB 15,000-rpm SAS with 16MB disk cache"
And here's the obligatory official [ADM compatibility article link|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1219].
Other potential expansion options include outboard direct attached storage (DAS) via SCSI or SAS and a PCI-X or PCIe controller, outboard storage via Network Attached Storage (NAS), or outboard storage via Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN) storage via PCIe controller. If you're looking at SAS disks here specifically for performance, I'd tend to go to DAS SAS or FC SAN storage as potential alternatives; they're toward the higher end.

How to restore saved image to my SAS drive

Hi all,
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I haven't found an applicable thread yet.
I have Windows 7 Pro on a Thinkstation S20 with a SAS drive (not a SATA drive). I am unable to restore my drive with my backup because the SAS drive is not detected. What is the solution for this? Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you.
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Ok, I found this (from you, when you helped someone else) and it worked! Woohoo!
1. Download CDSAS09WS17.exe from the Lenovo site. For your case, I would download it again and start completely fresh. I downloaded directly to a USB key, and then ran the .exe from the key and extracted the contents to a folder on the key.
2. Boot your system to the win7 install disc, run through the prompts (make sure you're not choosing upgrade).
3. When you get to the drive selection screen, click "load driver".
4. Point windows to where you extraced the Marvell driver files on your key. Note that for 64 bit you should point it to the "amd64" folder. Click OK.
5. Allow windows to load the driver. Once it's done, it should come up with mv64xx.inf file. Make sure the "hide devices that are not compatible with this HW is checked". This way only a single driver should show. Click OK.
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S20 15K SAS Drive noise

Hi,
I have purchased the following:
Lenovo ThinkStation S20 Xeon W3550 Quad-Core Processor (3.06GHz 1066MHz 8MB) 4gb (2 x 2gb) udimm ddr3 1333MHz, 300GB SAS (15k) with SAS Controller Card NVIDIA Quadro 2000
This is a brand new system and its really noisy the case itself is fine, all the noise comes from the SAS drive. I've used other SAS drives before and there quiet like a normal HDD is the SAS drive broken or is it meant to sound like there is a little jack hammer inside the case everytime the drive reads or writes?
The performance seems fine, the drive has the following part number: Hitachi HUS156030VLS60 SAS 15KRpm 6Gb/s 3.5"
Here is a image of the performance from HD Tune:
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jdeb - my current setup is a 160GB intel 320-series SSD for OS, swap space, and scratch disk.   for data storage i use two 1TB WD10JPVT 2.5" notebook drives in RAID 1. i have a third WD10JPVT inside for daily backups. then, i have an external thinkpad eSATA+USB secure HDD enclosure with a fourth WD10JPVT inside.
i use windows server 2008 R2 SP1 enterprise edition as my OS. backup is handled via windows server backup performed twice daily using a custom shell script triggered by the task scheduler. backups run at noon and 6pm, imaging both the SSD and 1TB data array.   the only drive at risk is the SSD since it's not in RAID 1 with another unit.   i've been waiting for intel to introduce an RST driver capable of handling RAID+TRIM.   currently there are two 6-hour windows where the drive could fail and recent data might not be backed up.   otherwise i have multiple images for recovery.
the SSD is silent and the WD10JPVT drives idle at 22db with 25db seek acoustics and minuscule heat output. you can hear the drives when they seek but it's very subtle. otherwise the C20 is imperceptible in my environment.
for a personal workstation deployment i'm done with noisy SAS drives.   at slightly more than 100MB/sec sequential transfer speeds, the WD10JPVT drives are great.   any files needed more quickly can go on an SSD if the need arises.
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Booting Mac Pro in Windows from SAS drive - has anyone else done this?

I'm trying to boot both Windows (Vista 64bit) and Mac OS X.5 from an internal SAS drive (I don't need RAID). I've done some research and discovered that the following options won't work:
Apple RAID card: (bootable, supports SAS, but no support for Windows)
CalDigit RAID card: (bootable in Mac and Windows, but no SAS support)
HighPoint RAID/SAS card: (not bootable in Mac Pro)
At present I've installed an Atto 308H SAS controller, but can't get it to boot.
Has anyone else successfully used the Atto card (or anything else)? If so, how did you do it?
Bryce.

Further to the above: I have now managed to install and boot Vista64 from the SAS drive.
For those interested, I booted into OS X (on a SATA drive) and installed the drivers for the Atto card, then flashed the card with the latest firmware (as at 13/9/08). After rebooting, I could see the SAS drive in either Mac or Windows - although I still couldn't boot from it, or install an OS to it.
I used the Atto "MakeDisk" utility to create a Windows driver folder on a USB Flash drive.
Then I attempted to install Vista (loading drivers from USB as approprate), but it wouldn't install to the SAS drive becuase it was a "GPT Style partition".
I rebooted into WinXP and used DiskPart (from the command prompt) to change the SAS drive from a GPT to an MBR disk.
After this I could install Vista sucessfully (still had to load drivers from the USB).
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PCIe eSATA controller and drive case

Can someone recommend the best external backup to purchase? I don't quite understand the difference between a regular external hard drive, like something that WD makes, versus an PCIe eSATA controller and drive case. What is all of that? Do I really need such a thing, and is it better?
Thanks.

Can someone recommend the best external backup to purchase? I don't quite understand the difference between a regular external hard drive, like something that WD makes, versus an PCIe eSATA controller and drive case. What is all of that? Do I really need such a thing, and is it better?
Dear kpdesigns,
No one knows what you need or want but you. I can provide some ideas of various external storage options that are available for the Mac Pro. The various storage protocols differ in performance, expansion and reliability characteristics.
1. USB - external USB drives are cheap and readily available. They work good for backing up small amounts of data (10-50GB). The performance of a USB drive on a Mac Pro is limited to approximately 17-18MB/sec. This translates into long backup periods when trying to copy 100GB of data to a USB device. FireWire 400, 800 and eSATA enclosures are all faster.
2. FireWire 400 - external FW400 drives are little more expensive than USB 2.0 enclosures but they provide approximately 32-38MB/sec transfer rates which is almost twice as fast as USB 2.0 on a Mac Pro. FW400 provides adequate speed for most backup situations where less than 100GB of data is in play.
3. FireWire 800 - external FW800 drives can provide 52-60MB/sec. transfer speeds. This method works well as a backup drive for a Mac Pro as the FW800 ports are built in. It also works well as a boot drive if necessary. However, when using more than one FW800 drive, speeds can be lower and many users end up resorting to PCIe expansion cards when adding more than three FW800 drives. FW800 does not provide the RAID performance that external SATA solutions can provide.
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Ecternal 2-Port PCIe Cards
The next level of external SATA on the Mac Pro is a two port card that utilizes the SiI-3132 chip. These PCIe cards provide great individual and dual SATA hard drive performance but are limited to approx. 125MB/sec when used with a SATA PM multi-drive setup in a RAID configuration. Examples of cards in this category include:
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FirmTek SeriTek/2SE2-E ($99.95)
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External 4-Port PCIe eSATA Cards
The next step up of SATA controllers for the Mac Pro includes 4-port external eSATA cards that provide very good RAID performance and support port multiplier (SATA PM) and direct connect enclosures. These cards can support up to 20 hard drives using 4 SATA PM 5-bay enclosures and can provide 200-700MB/sec performance in RAID 0 configurations with 5-20 hard drives. Examples of Mac Pro host adapters that fall into this category include:
Addonics ADSA3GPX8-4EM ($199)
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DAT Optic eSATA_PCIe8 ($189)
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NORCO-4629 ($189.99)
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RocketRAID 2314 ($200)
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/2314/
Sonnet Tempo E4P ($299
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SATA PCIe RAID Controllers
The next step up for Mac Pro SATA host adapters is high performance RAID 5 and RAID 6 controllers that provide redundancy. Performance for this group using 8 drives in a RAID 5 configuration is 420MB/sec on average. Using RAID 6 performance is 350-380MB/sec on average. Mac Pro host adapters that fall into this category include:
Apple RAID 5 internal 4-port card ($999)
HighPoint RocketRAID 2322 RAID 5 Controller ($299)
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/enhance/e8/
Areca ARC-1221x RAID 6 SATA Controller ($680)
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/areca/1221x/
RAID 6 SAS Controllers
The next upgrade for external Mac Pro SATA/SAS hard drive users is the new SAS RAID 6 controllers. These cards provide 8-12 ports that work with either SATA hard drives or SAS drives. They also have the capability to support up to 128 devices using SAS Expanders. This new category of external storage provides almost unlimited expansion capability with a single Mac Pro PCIe host adapter. An example of this category is the bootable Areca ARC-1680x SAS RAID 6 SATA Controller ($845). AMUG is currently reviewing this card and the review should be available soon.
As you can see the Mac Pro supports a wide range of external storage options. Users simply need to decide how much storage they need and what performance level they desire. Typically, as the volume of data being maniplulated grows higher the need for higher performance also grows higher. Users working with uncompressed HD video will find large high performance RAID systems provide a great platform for video editing.
Have fun!

Re: Updating Marvell Yukon ethernet driver on an Equium A300D

About a month ago I think it was I got an alert on the Toshiba Tempro tool to update a driver for the Marvell Yukon ethernet driver on my laptop. I downloaded the zip file as instructed from the Marvell website (an updated driver was released on 18/8/08) and attempted to install it, but it was then I hit a problem. When I try to install it I'm told a previous version is already installed, and to uninstall the previous version first.
The problem is when I go to the Device Manager and try and find the driver, the only entry there's for a "Marvell Yukon 88E8040T PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller" , but the driver I was prompted to install was for a Marvell Miniport Driver.
At the time I simply ignored it, thinking the update wasn't relevant to me, but since then I've had a number of BSODs - the latest this afternoon - and in all the cases when Windows has finished doing it's error reporting thing, it comes back with the advice that I need up update the Marvell Yukon Semiconductor driver...and directs me to the same download that I was originally directed to by the Tempro alert. Of course again, it tells me I have to uninstall the previous version before installing it, but as I can't find a previous version of this Miniport driver to uninstall there's nothing I can do about it, so again I ignore it. Everything appears to be working fine (apart from my ongoing dropped internet connection problems with my wireless network and the fact that I can't seem to set up a wired connection (maybe because of this driver problem?), but then sooner or later I get a BSOD again, and it blames the Marvell Yukon driver, and I'm back to square one again. I've had the BSOD now 4 or 5 times over the last month.
Any advice appreciated.

Hello
Have you tried to roll back the OS to earlier time using system restore tool?
Try it and let us know if everything works well again. If yes leave it and be happy without updates.

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