Status on LSI SAS2008?

[John]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:05:27PM +0100, Michael Fuckner wrote:
> On 02/02/10 13:11, Tanel Rebane wrote:
> 
>  > Does anyone know the status of the LSI SAS2008 chipset in regards to
>  > FreeBSD? If any, I suppose it?s the mfi(4)-driver that should pick up
>  > support. I know the LSI SAS2108 should work fine with mfi(4) but I
>  > have no idea how big the differences between 2008 and 2108 are.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been running those cards on Linux.
> 
> The 2008-Chip is an HBA-Chip. Linux uses the mpt2sas Driver (the old 
> HBAs are using mptsas).
> 
> 
> The 2108 is the Raid-Chip using the megaraid_sas or 3w-sas driver 
> (depending on the firmware installed- LSI 9261-8i and 3ware 9750-8i seem 
> to have identical Hardware.

Hi,

Can you please clarify which linux works and how large the individual
disks are?

My problem under BSD is 2-fold:

1. There is an open PR for this LSI device at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=144326

2. My smallest disk is 2TB

Without visiting the datacentre, I have no device to install to.

thanks!
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