LSI 9300-16i supported?

[Stephen Mcconnell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Oberstein [mailto:tobias.oberstein at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 12:14 PM
> To: Stephen Mcconnell; freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: LSI 9300-16i supported?
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> thanks a lot for your info!
>
> Btw: is Avago/LSI contributing all it's driver code for FreeBSD to be
> included in
> the FreeBSD source tree?
>
> E.g. LSI has downloads for FreeBSD drivers:
>
> http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9201-
> 16i.aspx#tab/tab4
>
> Why is that? Is that different code than the one included in FreeBSD
> source tree?

Yes, the FreeBSD tree is a bit different.  Avago has out of box drivers that
are maintained, and we try to keep the FreeBSD tree up to date with the
in-box changes.  You should be OK to go with the in-box driver.

>
> I'd prefer to rely on standard FreeBSD source tree (definitely no vendor
> blobs ..
> but it seems the download above is source anyway).
>
>  > Officially, Avago (LSI) hasn't done ANY testing on 10.1 yet and I
> personally
> > have not used the 9300-16i card.  So, officially, no cards are
> > supported on
> > 10.1 yet.  Unofficially, my guess is that they both work just fine,
> > but you'll probably have to do your own validation until Avago does
> > its 10.1 testing.
>
> I see.
>
> I guess I go with the LSI SAS 9201-16i for the time being - probably "less
> risk".
> The fact that the 9300 has _two_ 3008 chips on one card could be a source
> of
> additional pain .. and then we have 3 of those cards.
>
> My problem is: I'd love to use the newer card (more IOPS pushed etc), but
> this
> box needs to go to production real quickly, and costs some money.
>
> There are enough potential sources of surprise already, like the box will
> have 8
> Intel P3700 PCIe 2TB SSDs. We'll find out what FreeBSD/ZFS/PostgreSQL
> makes
> out of these;)
>
> Cheers,
> /Tobias
>
> >
> > Stephen McConnell
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org]
> > On Behalf Of Tobias Oberstein
> > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 11:38 AM
> > To: freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org
> > Subject: LSI 9300-16i supported?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The FreeBSD 10.1 hardware compatibility list
> >
> > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html
> >
> > for the LSI mpr(4) driver mentions these 3 cards:
> >
> > * LSI SAS 3004 (4 Port SAS)
> > * LSI SAS 3008 (8 Port SAS)
> > * LSI SAS 3108 (8 Port SAS)
> >
> > It does _not_ mention the Avago (LSI) 9300-16i
> >
> > http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/Pages/sas-9300-16i.aspx
> >
> > which is quite new, and features _two_ SAS 3008 chips (Fusion MPT™ 2.5).
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Is this chip supported? Any practical experience?
> >
> >   From the FreeBSD source tree (not as a binary blob from LSI .. they
> > mention FreeBSD support for that card, but I don't want to depend on
> > them)?
> >
> > I want to deploy _three_ of those cards to drive 48 SAS disks in a
> > quite high-end server. I need to be really confident that it works,
> > since the box is for a customer and costs 100k Euro.
> >
> > If there is any doubt, I probably go with the LSI SAS 9201-16i
> >
> > http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9201-16i.a
> > spx
> >
> > as this seems to be well supported for quite some time. Please correct
> > me if I'm wrong and should look for something else ..
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any hints!
> >
> > /Tobias
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