Suggestions for Adaptec SAS AIC9410

[Andy Dills]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Scott Long wrote:

> Doug White wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Andy Dills wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get a Supermicro 6024H-32R setup with 6.1, but I'm
> > > discovering that the Adaptec SAS AIC9410 controller isn't yet supported.
> > > 
> > > I see one brief thread about it on this mailing list back in March, but no
> > > further mention or conclusive details. There was talk of MFCing the mpt
> > > driver...is anybody using this in production?
> > 
> > 
> > Can you get a pciconf -lv off this system? It might just be a case of
> > needing to add an ID to an existing driver (aac?).
> > 
> 
> No, the 9410 is a SAS HBA chip.  It's actually meant to be used just in
> Adaptec HostRAID (software RAID) mode, but writing a standalone driver
> is possible, albeit fairly difficult and time consuming.

Being completely ignorant of the deep internals of the FreeBSD kernel, the 
GEOM layer, etc., how difficult is it to take the existing linux drivers 
that Adaptec distributes and port them to FreeeBSD?

I ask out of curiousity, not implying that it isn't difficult and time 
consuming.

Thanks,
Andy

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