Need supported SAS controller

[Andrea Venturoli]

Il 09/07/10 20:26, Torbjorn Granlund ha scritto:
> Is the any PCIe SAS controller that is supported by FreeBSD 8.1 that I
> can purchase today?  The controller should preferably be low-profile.
> RAID is not needed since I have just one disk, but if only RAID
> controllers are available, I can live with that.

I have never seen a non-RAID SAS controller in my life: notice I'm not 
saying mean they don't exist, but everyone I used was RAID capable.
That said, I'm using:

Adaptec SAS RAID 3405
aac0 at pci0:2:14:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x02bb9005 chip=0x02859005 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Adaptec Inc'
     device     = 'AAC-RAID RAID Controller'
     class      = mass storage
     subclass   = RAID


Adaptec SAS RAID 3805
aac0 at pci0:4:14:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x02bc9005 chip=0x02859005 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Adaptec Inc'
     device     = 'AAC-RAID RAID Controller'
     class      = mass storage
     subclass   = RAID


Intel SRCSASJV
mfi0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x010400 card=0x10068086 chip=0x00601000 
rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
     device     = 'SAS1078 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS'
     class      = mass storage
     subclass   = RAID


I've also used a couple of HPs in the past: I think it was a P400, but I 
don't have access to those machines any more.


Never had any problems with any of these; only note: I could not get 
access to HP management via FreeBSD, but things might possibly have 
changed since then.

N.B. I'm using 7.x, but I see no reason why 8.1 should be more troublesome.



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