Looking for supported SAS controller
Darren Pilgrim
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Tue Feb 4 18:34:16 UTC 2014
On 2/3/2014 3:34 AM, Georg Altmann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am looking for a PCIe SAS controller (HBA) for connecting a internal
> SAS tape drive (HP LTO3/Ultrium3 Storageworks 920) that works with
> FreeBSD 10.
LSI. LSI all day long. Specifically, anything with an LSI SAS2008 chip
on it. They go into a lot of OEM RAID cards, including those from Dell
and IBM. You can find 8-port ones on eBay for less than USD100. If
your eBay hunting doesn't go well, buy an LSI 9211-series card. Most of
the cards have multi-lane connectors, but LSI sells fan-out cables. You
can probably use third-party cables as well, I just never bothered. LSI
or OEM, download the "IT Firmware BIOS" from LSI and reflash the card.
That will turn it into a non-RAID HBA, which is what you want for
non-disk devices (and ZFS).
I found this article helpful:
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/confused-about-that-lsi-card-join-the-crowd.11901/
It's about picking HBAs for a FreeNAS box, but applies here as well
since FreeBSD is FreeBSD-based.
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