Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports
deloptes@gmail.com wrote:
>> My research thus far:
>>
>> 1. LSI products are popular, but:
>>
>> a. Most seem to be PCIe x8.
>>
>> b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing
>> firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or
>> motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the flash tools.
Yup. The story here is a major pain, in my experience. Add in the
massive list of unclear vendor-branded cards and it's not something I
could recommend,
>I have this one for may be 7y already.
>
>08:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E
>PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08)
>
>https://wiki.pdl.cmu.edu/pub/OpenCloud/CloudManuals/SCG_LSISAS1068E_PB_040407.pdf
>
>It is 3Gb/s - don't know about the newer ones, but this one is working
>perfectly well for all those years 24/7.
That particular model is limited on supported disk sizes, to 2T IIRC -
I bought one from ebay and it was no use at all.
My own choice for more SATA/SAS ports is a Highpoint RocketRAID 2720 -
8 ports on a PCIe 2.0 x8 connector. Supported out of the box using the
mvsas mainline driver.
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