On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Francois Tigeot
<ftigeot@wolfpond.org> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:02:38PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote:
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> I'm curious about the state of hardware RAID controllers in DragonFly.
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> Would a LSI1068-E controller be usable with DragonFly-2.4 ?
This page answers my question for this controller:
http://blogaristoo.lqx.net/index.php/2009/01/14/sassy-lip-from-the-lsi-1068e
LSI1068e is *not* usable at all.
You'd be better off going with separate PCI-X/PCIe controllers. Not sure about DragonFlyBSD, but FreeBSD fully supports these cards (mpt(4), mfi(4), twa(4)):
4-port PCI-X: LSI SAS 3041X-R
8-port PCI-X: LSI SAS 3080X-R
4-port PCIe: LSI SAS 3041E-R
8-port PCIe: LSI SAS 3081E-R
There's also the 3Ware cards (these are SAS and SATA):
4-port PCIe: LSI 3Ware 9690SA-4I
8-port PCIe: LSI 3Ware 9690SA-8I
These are SATA, but include support for mini-SAS connectors and do work with SAS drives:
4-port PCIe: LSI 3Ware 9650SE-4LPML
8-port PCIe: LSI 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML
4-port PCI-X: LSI 3Ware 9550SXU-4LP
8-port PCI-X: LSI 3Ware 9550SXU-8LP
