Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:26:35 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: "George Kontostanos" <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment Message-ID: <00BFCA9D569640E08E243CCBC61CF287@multiplay.co.uk> References: <CA%2BdUSyrdPsDJyZ0Ow3%2B6sNzc10we2BGV10tUYtzkuE5u9Ook2A@mail.gmail.com><50E70CD3-2D8A-4B49-8BB1-381FB6779A71@transactionware.com><CA%2BdUSyohz0EMxzE7-un=T7WDwdh%2BDnK=5%2BvNmZsBqhwPCRDj3w@mail.gmail.com><A6FF01A2-D638-4766-9DD4-013CDC813DAF@transactionware.com><CA%2BdUSyr1PMu2gdB6iUYG7QESYU9MbVQT-Hy27=_uZSNrxH75Lw@mail.gmail.com><5433111728EF4748A35DB4ED19E10CD2@multiplay.co.uk> <CA%2BdUSyr53CqeEhwX9puJcsw=998qByT63_FrY%2BXdGHNdSkGBbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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From: "George Kontostanos" <gkontos.mail@gmail.com>
>
> I know. The problem with that controller is that for some reason it
> doesn't like gpart. I have gnoped the drives directly and it seems to
> be working so far.
It still really smells like something higher up the layers than the
controller tbh.
>> In addition to this we're running LSI 2008 based controllers here on
>> 8.2-RELEASE + manually merged in mps driver with ZFS just fine. They
>> aren't running 4k aligned but they are working well.
>>
>
> Right, they fall under the mps driver like the following:
>
> LSI Logic SAS2004 (4 Port SAS)
> LSI Logic SAS2008 (8 Port SAS)
> LSI Logic SAS2108 (8 Port SAS)
> LSI Logic SAS2116 (16 Port SAS)
> LSI Logic SAS2208 (8 Port SAS)
Confused as your 9240-4i is a SAS2008 based card so you "shouldnt" be
seeing any difference as it should be supported just fine under mps.
The cards we have here are 9211-8i if that helps.
Regards
Steve
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