> The specification of these card say that they are > hardware RAID card. Can they be used in non-RAID mode > for software RAID (with ZFS) ?
They can. If I can generalize, the LSI cards seem to present drives not in a RAID array as bare drives with no configuration necessary, while the Adaptec cards require you to configure a drive as a separate "volume" before it will be presented to the OS. The 8-port LSI model is SAS3080X... for PCI-X, and SAS3080E... for PCIe. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
