From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 12:35:36 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 2F99E4BF for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22b.google.com (mail-ig0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3F993362 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f171.google.com with SMTP id l13so7945681iga.4 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:35:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=uXOUrD3+zuPYA6Qej9CV7R4SBxl0Io/LH5qPiJbj7Sg=; b=KnGUHoxQzfuS/Q04OAoxecrhEW3llQZAtp5F+LoP3+5NbzT/xmR+IRutQl504u2Dek XFT10+vQNsrCVOFiKqlFg9Vt9mlfBfuoQar/CD06xcrnb1P0svlsd5TsIOTsBE0cXmXR tZYEMX8V/KfRQgoOVgTxhRGossjzZjppX4yB2Ar9y7smv8GSQW3gK9AoWe3b3Jh6IjVD pUJmtvcsYUYdFzOoZcro3oKzm7mhdsY2Jl4IlnGYji7xoosKrHUHe14Oapb+7bRMXOIu x/egz+2m/yJSgoYvnASKCv/s/kDlbZzP/6aP+Y3RBoWOyK7oryn7WmRj+vrNY4b8sM5z LpKg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.43.167 with SMTP id x7mr42717149igl.36.1408365335085; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.1.19 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:35:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140817171554.GB7997@codelibre.net> References: <20140817171554.GB7997@codelibre.net> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:35:35 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PCI-E SATA-III HBA for FreeBSD 10 From: Tom Evans To: Roger Leigh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Stable 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: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:35:36 -0000 On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > 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. > Cards supported by mps(4), eg LSI SAS2008 based cards, are very well supported and very fast. Flash to "IT mode" for use with ZFS. Cheers Tom