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Subject: Re: LSI 2008 drivers
From: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com>
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On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 16:41 -0800, Alltek Supplies Tech Support/Customer
Service wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> We're looking to build a ZFS storage device with FreeBSD version 8.3,
> however, the Supermicro based hardware comes with LSI 2008 SAS
> controller card and we were told that LSI / Supermicro doesn't have a
> driver for FreeBSD.  We're just wondering if the LSI 2008 is supported
> under FreeBSD version 8.3?
> 

The on-board LSI2008 chips on Supermicro boards work fine with 8.3. That
said, I did update mine with the BIOS+firmware from LSI.