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On Jul 10, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Francois Tigeot wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> Now, this particular server was running under DragonFly and not =
FreeBSD but
> the mfi(4) driver is mostly the same under both operating systems and =
I have
> found reports of data corruption issues with mfi(4) and recent LSI =
adapters
> in the archives of this list.

I reported data corruption affecting one of the new SAS3 controllers on =
an IBM server.

=
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2014-February/006260.html

In my case, it happened when using the "passthrough" support (called  =
"syspd" or "jbod" by LSI). It did not corrupt
data for me when using it as a RAID card.

Cheers,





Borja.