From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 15:11:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8072D682 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:11:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B43F8FC18 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9IFBJtO042218 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Subject: Problems with the LSI 9211-8i or LSI SAS2008 chips? From: Dennis Glatting To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:11:19 -0700 Message-ID: <1350573079.3968.41.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: q9IFBJtO042218 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd@pki2.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:11:29 -0000 I am working with some folks on this list on a ZFS problem where I am using LSI 9211-8i boards flashed to IT, which use the LSI SAS2008 chips (I own about ten of these boards). I have used various versions of BIOS and firmware from LSI in these boards and presently using LSI's most recent. The 2008 chips are listed as supported in the driver and I have also used Supermicro boards with these chips. mps0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfe93c000-0xfe93ffff,0xfe940000-0xfe97ffff irq 32 at device 0.0 on pci3 mps0: Firmware: 14.00.00.00, Driver: 14.00.00.01-fbsd mps0: IOCCapabilities: 1285c In the debugging process the question arose related to chip revisions, firmware revisions, and folks general opinion about the 9211-8i /or/ recommendation of something better for a ZFS HBA. We /do not/ know if the problem experienced is this board/chip/firmware, rather we're simply asking questions about them. Opinions? Experiences?