MPT SAS1064

[mjacob at freebsd.org]

I have the h/w= the Sun X4100s come with this. The problem is 
*probably*in having to do SAS PHY tuning (in some cases, of all things) 
and that will take more time than I have at present to devote to this. I 
plan on getting back to a handful of mpt issues some time in Apri.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, J. Martin Petersen wrote:

> mjacob at freebsd.org wrote:
>
>> The SAS/SATA version hasn't even been tested by me. Others have tried
>> it with varying degrees of success. Also on my list. I was actually 
>> surprised it worked at all.
>
> I think we have one of those, it shows up as
> 	mpt0 at pci5:1:0:  class=0x010000 card=0x3228103c chip=0x00541000
> 	rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> 	    vendor     = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
> 	    device     = 'SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068 -StorPort'
> 	    class      = mass storage
> 	    subclass   = SCSI
>
> It works as a SATA-controller, but is awfully slow. Both HP and Dell seems to 
> be using these now (this is from an HP ProLiant DL140 g3 and I've seen the 
> same card and chip id from a Dell PowerEdge 860 or somesuch).
>
> What can we do to help the driver support this device? If nothing else,
> I can provide remote access (including KVM when the Lo100i kit arrives) if 
> that could help you.
>
> Cheers, Martin
>