From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 12:20:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27126C2F; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smarthost.sentex.ca", Issuer "smarthost.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0CFB8DB; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sALCKI10021211; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:20:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <546F2E09.5060003@sentex.net> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:20:25 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney , Jia-Shiun Li , Alexander Motin , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" , pechter@gmail.com Subject: Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver? References: <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org> <20141121090822.GH99957@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20141121090822.GH99957@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.75 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:20:21 -0000 On 11/21/2014 4:08 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: >> for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using >> 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. > > In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... > Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card > (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... > > I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising > considering the binary driver... I have had good results with the LSI cards, both based on the 3ware driver (tws) and the mfi driver. The cost of the previous gen 6G SAS 9240-8si is quite reasonable and I can get great speeds and good monitoring through the available native FreeBSD tools (3dm,tw_cli,MegaCli,mfiutil) ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/