Avago LSI SAS 3008 & Intel SSD Timeouts

[Ben RUBSON]

> On 24 Oct 2016, at 20:39, list-news <list-news at mindpackstudios.com> wrote:
> 
> I posted my findings to SuperMicro, and they quickly released a v12 firmware for the SAS 3008 HBA, which as I understand is now publicly available on their site.
> 
> The story is long, and painful, but in the end the answer is to absolutely make sure you are running v12 firmware on the SAS 3008 cards.  If you are not running v12 (or later) firmware on the SAS 3008, your data is unstable! (at least with intel drives, probably others as well)

Thank you for this interesting feedback.
We were talking about 3008 reliability vs 2008 a few days ago @freebsd-fs.

Reading your input, a best-practice would also be to use Avago cards instead of rebranded ones, to benefit from last firmware versions.

Ben