Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:33:58 -0500 From: Jeanie <jeanie@jeaniez.com> To: luporl <luporl@freebsd.org>, Jeanie <jeanie@jeaniez.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SAS Raid controllers Message-ID: <5bdeb808-57b5-e267-4f01-3e54e4250ef1@jeaniez.com> In-Reply-To: <CAC7XEcLHtMFDfOu=DipG--OCwP34y=CW5qr=7yKjW8A-OEG2xQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <fa203424-960f-c72c-367a-e4a101b8feb0@jeaniez.com> <e5775be21458401e5d664ffb25156681@bsdforge.com> <CAOpTx7Hi6REo=FF0uJTzoyoO4-=k_R=4zF%2B_Hj=2X1RJ7TCeAg@mail.gmail.com> <CAC7XEc%2BdzV2OTTn_aG7xp2tCWJrNZU5OYN-6WQRMGjos1f2vUg@mail.gmail.com> <5a2db57c-780c-8ba8-7076-9d044fa55c10@jeaniez.com> <CAC7XEcLHtMFDfOu=DipG--OCwP34y=CW5qr=7yKjW8A-OEG2xQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22/01/21 08:54, luporl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:10 PM Jeanie <jeanie@jeaniez.com> wrote: > >> Hi Leandro, >> >> On 20/01/21 07:04, luporl wrote: >>> On PowerPC64, the onboard Talos II SAS controller works fine too, using >>> FreeBSD 13 aacraid driver: >>> >>> aacraid0: <Adaptec RAID Controller> mem >>> 0x80000000-0x800fffff,0x80180000-0x801803ff irq 1038328 at device 0.0 >>> numa-domain 0 on pci5 >>> ... >>> aacraid0: SmartIOC 8i, aacraid driver 3.2.10-1 >>> >>> - Leandro >> Sorry for the delay. Someone deleted my emails. >> >> You are using a SAS raid with PowerPC!!!!! Was it hard to make work? I >> am looking at the aacraid driver and it looks like add-on cards are >> available. >> >> Sincerely, >> Jeanie >> >> > Hi Jeanie, > > For me, with a recent FreeBSD 13 kernel, it just works, as the aacraid > driver is now included with the default PowerPC64 kernel. > But I'm using it with only one SAS drive, so I haven't tested its raid > capabilities. > The only complaint that I have is that, on my machine, disk writes are very > slow. > > - Leandro > _______________________________________________ Hi Leandro, That was going to be my next question, what kernel you are using, but since you already answered it, I guess that I won't need to ask. I will update my source and give compiling a kernel a try. It is interesting that it is slow on writes. Maybe it is because you only have one drive? Have you looked into this any further? Sincerely, Jeaniehome | help
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