Re: SAS RAID controllers support

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 08:48:37AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
> 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:
> > >
> > > I'm curious about the state of hardware RAID controllers in DragonFly.
> > >
> > > 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 PCIe:  LSI SAS 3041E-R
> 8-port PCIe:  LSI SAS 3081E-R
> 
> There's also the 3Ware cards (these are SAS and SATA):

[...]

Thanks for the list.

There is no PCI-X support on the server boards I have in mind, so I can only
validate PCI-E adapters.

There's a twa driver in sys/dev/raid/ but it has not been updated since 2004,
so I guess none of the recent 3Ware adapters are supported.

There's also a mpt driver in sys/dev/disk/ which has been recently updated. No
trace of a mfi driver.

I will focus on LSI external adapters for now.

-- 
Francois Tigeot