Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

[Freddie Cash]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Artem Belevich <fbsdlist at src.cx> wrote:
>>  LSI SAS 3080X-R    8-port SATA/SATA PCI-X
>
> This one uses LSI1068 chip which is supported by mpt driver. I'm using
> motherboard with an on-board equivalent of this and don't have much to
> complain about. I did see some CRC errors with SATA drives in 3Gbps
> mode, but those went away after updating firmware to 1.29.0.0. I've
> seen some comments on zfs-discuss mailing list that -IR variant of the
> firmware (the one that provides RAID0/1 capabilities) does have some
> stability issues and recommended going with simpler -IT version (just
> pass-through disks).

If that one uses the LSI1068 chipset, do you know which one uses the
LSI1078 chipset?  I've seen that number in the comments in one of the
mf* drivers (think it was mfi).  How does one determine which actual
chipset is in which controller?  Do they have that buried in the docs
somewhere?

I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID),
and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD.  Any
comments on their quality/performance/reliability?

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Freddie Cash
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