From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 14 15:51:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 096D692A for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-x236.google.com (mail-oa0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C616E260E for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id o6so2454778oag.27 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:51:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=8jtVGLFoo5AMmDn1AoQG1/W127eW1Nm26B0u2LcCAaU=; b=qveYNGsz1rEqLHW7JKFpg0xBGxuzsDmfowhmojcO2JQQMIvtabeF9Bsbp30x8t8L2J 6wH1ZXIWkMMKK9sInwMSv7c0Dtw8b5bTctZBbqNSFel2ehuaubH8zXg1rdimJa1eAhmP avzfW65E1rTJ0hm6wrcuK6lvkJIlX6CfCUTQ5oANwxkvYKplSV/BxuLJ5oFtyuht1Dtl dUHGh6iVxLq+re8z2E6D8azeeTwB76gW5KvoDrxd8iMphX1jo3RBQ9VYcbZ9XOhoQ9WZ IjKois0uOPdEr8ucPFZL+BExVWyvLDdNTEdxYXlzdvAWk3X3Fh6778yyzmdmtnAaLlx1 UIpg== X-Received: by 10.60.145.136 with SMTP id su8mr2083534oeb.17.1384444307856; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.74] (75-63-29-182.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. [75.63.29.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qe2sm6033260obc.1.2013.11.14.07.51.46 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:51:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Controller for ZFS Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: aurfalien In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:51:46 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1107DEAB-75FD-4967-B7D4-4A29FC9CAB00@gmail.com> References: <49F719A9-AC50-4917-8809-F51EBD4F5D0F@sarenet.es> <3E00D7C0-68EE-4838-BD99-0BF2011DBC06@sarenet.es> To: Tom Evans X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) Cc: "freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:51:49 -0000 On Nov 14, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Borja Marcos = wrote: >> Do you recommend more recent firmware versions, though? I was playing = with this for a while and it really >> was tiresome to be loading different firmware versions. >=20 > 100% agree on how tiresome it is! I was going from messages on this > list, especially from Steven Hartland, who seems to know what he is > talking about: >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-July/017728.html >=20 > and >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-May/017284.html >=20 > """ > The conclusion is LSI 2008 HBA with FW below P13 will eat the data on = your SATA > disks if you use WS16 due to the following bug Well, as I understand in general one should match the fw with the = driver. So FreeBSD 9 uses v14 LSI driver, so one would flash v14 fw on the = cards. In FreeBSD 10 it looks as if its v16, so one would flash v16 fw. In my tests in a 9 env, I can confirm that the systems runs better with = v14 all around. Thoughts? - aurf=