SAS Raid controllers

[luporl]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:10 PM Jeanie <jeanie at jeaniez.com> wrote:

> Hi Leandro,
>
> On 20/01/21 07:04, luporl wrote:
> > On PowerPC64, the onboard Talos II SAS controller works fine too, using
> > FreeBSD 13 aacraid driver:
> >
> > aacraid0: <Adaptec RAID Controller> mem
> > 0x80000000-0x800fffff,0x80180000-0x801803ff irq 1038328 at device 0.0
> > numa-domain 0 on pci5
> > ...
> > aacraid0: SmartIOC 8i, aacraid driver 3.2.10-1
> >
> > - Leandro
>
> Sorry for the delay. Someone deleted my emails.
>
> You are using a SAS raid with PowerPC!!!!! Was it hard to make work? I
> am looking at the aacraid driver and it looks like add-on cards are
> available.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeanie
>
>
Hi Jeanie,

For me, with a recent FreeBSD 13 kernel, it just works, as the aacraid
driver is now included with the default PowerPC64 kernel.
But I'm using it with only one SAS drive, so I haven't tested its raid
capabilities.
The only complaint that I have is that, on my machine, disk writes are very
slow.

- Leandro