From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 18:38:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CB445AD for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com (mail-wi0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2B20A6D for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f170.google.com with SMTP id z2so9816407wiv.1 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lL43f1i+y352Mn4amUR8BrcOJIEv1Iv7D/5kRFc5qzU=; b=MtfZ0iCZXBsIWCAYb/8UV8803K0e9TePSRcoZw5FV4jPCvZbxS0xg0mjhKDxIZhjJj HYqEtn/RBc+RYJVVKmg8VPCktvmpz8K+Ct9ihx8chOfW/QgfNJHLGlMRBw3d42esMPQB dwRMasdNGDSbScX/j2zC+xTZelPIg2ml+lBbq+k1ezA1P9nB1k23kw5qaK4l6+PsIYMI nyv0LKcHeWwU0+gbyaCoK5viryIAUisS3mFh1NuiW4D+feE+poq7DfS3Ve5YNvhIWqgI yth+gfyWinoP9rCu6wpjVTahytxw+wAF8hElUm1MfvP7QwQwDpAOzCi26MISCeIveJ/d JcIA== X-Received: by 10.180.98.162 with SMTP id ej2mr18254240wib.39.1421519910102; Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.130] (ppp-82-135-85-33.dynamic.mnet-online.de. [82.135.85.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id n3sm10659440wja.36.2015.01.17.10.38.29 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:38:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54BAAC24.5030704@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:38:28 +0100 From: Tobias Oberstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: LSI 9300-16i supported? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:38:32 -0000 Hi, The FreeBSD 10.1 hardware compatibility list https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html for the LSI mpr(4) driver mentions these 3 cards: * LSI SAS 3004 (4 Port SAS) * LSI SAS 3008 (8 Port SAS) * LSI SAS 3108 (8 Port SAS) It does _not_ mention the Avago (LSI) 9300-16i http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/Pages/sas-9300-16i.aspx which is quite new, and features _two_ SAS 3008 chips (Fusion MPT™ 2.5). == Is this chip supported? Any practical experience? From the FreeBSD source tree (not as a binary blob from LSI .. they mention FreeBSD support for that card, but I don't want to depend on them)? I want to deploy _three_ of those cards to drive 48 SAS disks in a quite high-end server. I need to be really confident that it works, since the box is for a customer and costs 100k Euro. If there is any doubt, I probably go with the LSI SAS 9201-16i http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9201-16i.aspx as this seems to be well supported for quite some time. Please correct me if I'm wrong and should look for something else .. Thanks a lot for any hints! /Tobias