2010/2/23 Francois Tigeot <[email protected]>

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 06:20:51PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm curious about the state of hardware RAID controllers in
> DragonFly.
> >
> > I'm now pretty sure the only hardware RAID adapters which *could* be
> usable
> > are based on the LSI 1078 chipset
> >
> > At least 6 different cards are based on it:
> >
> > - LSI MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP / 8708ELP
> > - LSI MegaRAID SAS 8704EM2 / 8708EM2
> > - LSI MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2
> > - LSI MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP
> >
> > I should be able to test a MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP soon. It was not
> recognized last
> > year but Matt has since updated the mpt(4) driver.
>
> The MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP is still not recognized.
>
> dmesg :
>
> pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
> pci3: <mass storage, RAID> (vendor 0x1000, dev 0x0060) at device 0.0 irq 11
>
> pciconf -lv :
>
> non...@pci0:3:0:0:      class=0x010400 card=0x10061000 chip=0x00601000
> rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
>    device     = 'SAS1078 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS'
>    class      = mass storage
>    subclass   = RAID
>
> So it seems DragonFly doesn't support any recent hardware RAID controller.
>

The Adaptec RAID (aac) controllers seems to be supported very well. For
example
the Adaptec RAID 5405 seems to work pretty well on a box I tested Dragonfly.

Regards,

  Michael

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