On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:21:43AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:52:33PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > > > > > But no disk connected to the controller will attach. The Linux driver > > > does not seems to treat SATA and SAS models very differently. Is there > > > anything particular to NetBSD when it comes to SAS? I see in the man page > > > that some other ARCEA SAS board are supported by NetBSD. > > > > Have a look at the FreeBSD driver. It has (last I looked, anyway) > > an idea of card type: "A", "B", "C", "D", and maybe even "E". > > The ARC1380-8i is PCI productID 0x1320. It does not seems to be > supported either by FreeBSD nor by Linux as of 3.13.
It is a Marvell SAS controller with Areca vendor and product IDs. For some reason Areca seem to try to hide this but the Linux driver source (the FreeBSD driver is binary-only!) makes it pretty clear. In other words -- I hate to say it, but -- not really an Areca controller. It would be nice to have a Marvell SAS driver and I am pretty sure there is an open source one for FreeBSD, but I'm not exactly suggesting you write or port one just for your own amusement... Thor
