From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 17:15:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7933EB7 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nagini.codelibre.net (nagini.codelibre.net [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:5750::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F472008 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nagini.codelibre.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 45C40183E7; Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:15:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:15:54 +0100 From: Roger Leigh To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: PCI-E SATA-III HBA for FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <20140817171554.GB7997@codelibre.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:15:55 -0000 Hi, I'm looking for a low-profile SATA-III adapter to put in an HP N40L microserver running FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE. I'd like to use a set of SSDs with it for ZFS ZIL and L2ARC as well as for the main system. I briefly tried a StarTech PEXSAT34SFF adapter with a Marvell 88SE9230 controller: http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/SATA-Cards/PCI-Express-SATA-III-RAID-Controller-Card-Mini-SAS-SFF-8087~PEXSAT34SFF ahci0: port 0xe800-0xe807,0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe007,0xd800-0xd803,0xd400-0xd41f mem 0xfe8ff800-0xfe8fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2 ahci0: AHCI v1.20 with 8 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported ahci0: quirks=0x800 However, I had to return it due to a couple of faults: the SFF-8087 cable was broken for one port, and it wouldn't work in the microserver in combination with an Icy Dock SATA backplane. Its performance was also pretty bad; on Linux I'm getting 475 MB/s from an SSD using the native SATA III ports on the mainboard. This was 320 MB/s with the adapter. FreeBSD only got 90 MB/s with the adapter which was a bit disappointing! While the card and cable here were not operating correctly, I'd be interested to know any good recommendations for a SATA-III adapter which works well with FreeBSD 10, and with decent performance. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800