Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

[Winfried Boxleitner <winfried.boxleitner@ait.ac.at>]

hello leslie,

On Fri, 22 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:50:06 AM UTC-5, Winfried Boxleitner wrote:
>
> > I'm using an Adaptec 7805H
>
>   Hmm.  That is SFF-8643.  'Not ideal.  I would really rather SFF-8088, or at least SFF-8087, for which I have some adapters.
>
> > (PCIe) which is supported by standard kernel
> > (currently I'm running: 3.16.0-4-amd64).
>
>   What about the management software?
I don't use any management software special to this adapter. the adapter
treats my disks as JBOD. on top of that I made a software raid (mdadm),
encryption layer (cryptsetup) and then locigal volumes for my data
(pvcreate -> vgcreate -> lvcreate).

regards
winfried