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Subject: Re: LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8208ELP
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Evans wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm looking at building a large home NAS, using ZFS, for long term media
> storage and spooling recordings from a linux mythtv box. I am very keen
> to avoid using ata(4), and was wondering if this card was supported by
> either mfi(4) or amr(4)? It isn't explicitly mentioned in either, but
> the 8408 is supported by mfi(4).
>
> If it is, excellent, its a nice 8 port PCIe 4x card available from UK
> etailers for not obscene prices :)

The 8408 should be supported by MFI. Check the freebsd-fs mailing list 
archives, there have been some reports of it working.