SAS RAID controllers support

[Freddie Cash]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:02:38PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote:
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> I'm curious about the state of hardware RAID controllers in DragonFly.
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> Would a LSI1068-E controller be usable with DragonFly-2.4 ?

This page answers my question for this controller:

http://blogaristoo.lqx.net/index.php/2009/01/14/sassy-lip-from-the-lsi-1068e

LSI1068e is *not* usable at all.You'd be better off going with separate PCI-X/PCIe controllers.  Not sure about DragonFlyBSD, but FreeBSD fully supports these cards (mpt(4), mfi(4), twa(4)):
4-port PCI-X:  LSI SAS 3041X-R 8-port PCI-X:  LSI SAS 3080X-R4-port PCIe:  LSI SAS 3041E-R8-port PCIe:  LSI SAS 3081E-RThere's also the 3Ware cards (these are SAS and SATA):
4-port PCIe:  LSI 3Ware 9690SA-4I8-port PCIe:  LSI 3Ware 9690SA-8IThese are SATA, but include support for mini-SAS connectors and do work with SAS drives:
4-port PCIe:  LSI 3Ware 9650SE-4LPML8-port PCIe:  LSI 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML4-port PCI-X:  LSI 3Ware 9550SXU-4LP8-port PCI-X:  LSI 3Ware 9550SXU-8LP
-- Freddie Cashfjwcash at gmail.com