From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 18 16:56:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1891065679 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:56:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E568FC17 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi12 with SMTP id 12so894410pxi.3 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0q1xe2Ea6IHFsJWnWaKBNjJPymBtR4/3b2YJEo2MfcI=; b=n/Oo4PDhsGkc2qxfmEtTiQbsrhV/0/gKvs4H7XK+6iCTnHZiwI7I/2SrMrBNv0JWxR bkuQCYBQZhVn+8kJPXcK21bPkkxHICthIjRsqDQbswZgsyTZIHmvKHwkJQTL0GvkdCSj Yypx8rvnI6RCZlb76FWiKUNVjlbSHjRdPXwks= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pBwf9cLy3+qzH1a4IhELHco8/m69IGhepp514ptVn0H1JTcUqU2D/y4r1GpqnEP3z8 rP7PxWRubL0QmfviSrFcRnl0njGrlKiXagiv0A+iChz3vz0whbDkCBM53y1ghaSL1zwD 5SiZRaHmUfhl9wAgkPx60fL0AeQcPf2ClMPXo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.60.8 with SMTP id i8mr1262809wfa.326.1258563374393; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091118101706.780938ba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <20091118101706.780938ba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:56:15 -0000 2009/11/18 Gerrit K=C3=BChn : > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:29:06 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > about Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > FC> Any recommendations on other SAS/SATA controllers to look at (just no= t > FC> anything with MegaRAID in the name)? > > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. Should b= e > even cheaper than the ones you mentioned and comes with a LSI chip > supported by mpt driver: > > mpt0@pci0:6:0:0: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0class=3D0x010000 card=3D0xa68= 015d9 chip=3D0x00581000 > rev=3D0x08 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =3D 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios L= ogic, NCR)' > =C2=A0 =C2=A0device =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =3D 'SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068E= -StorPort' > =C2=A0 =C2=A0class =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=3D mass storage > =C2=A0 =C2=A0subclass =C2=A0 =3D SCSI > > I only installed it last week and cannot comment much on performance and > stability up to now. These look nice, and are in the $200-300 CDN range. Have the same mini-SAS connectors as the 3Ware cards we use, so wouldn't have to re-cable the chassis. Are you using these as standard disk controllers, or are you using the RAID features (seems it supports RAID0 and RAID1 in hardware, RAID5 in software)? Reading through the manual right now, and it doesn't cover using the card in non-RAID modes. Wondering if the drives would show up as normal da0 da1 da2 etc. All of these (there's a couple variations on the card) appear to be PCIe, though, no PCI-X. We have 24 drive bays, and only 2 PCIe slots. Have 3 PCI-X slots, though, so would need at least 1 PCI-X controller. --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com