SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

Leon Meßner l.messner at physik.tu-berlin.de
Mon Jul 25 21:54:03 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:42:07PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at c0mplx.org> wrote:
> 
> > What kind of SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller is currently suggested
> > for use in 8/9 setups with large RAM (64G) setups with ZFS ?
> >
> 
> SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i
> 
> PCIe controller with 2 multi-lane connectors (SFF-1087) supporting 8
> SAS/SATA ports.  Supports two firmwares:
>   IR mode enables RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and a couple of other modes (no
> RAID5+)
>   IT mode enables straight HBA mode
> 
> Supported by the mps(4) driver in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT, and I believe has been
> MFC'd into 8.2-STABLE.

Yes, it's in -STABLE. Does anyone know if mps is going to support
IR-Firmware in the near future ? 


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