From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 10:04:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F44106564A for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:04:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hardware@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0078FC12 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TB0rB-0007Te-1m for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:04:41 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:04:41 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:04:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:04:28 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9606B38C2A48FA327E40FD11" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120812 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle redundant SAS controllers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:04:42 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9606B38C2A48FA327E40FD11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07/09/2012 16:53, Andy Young wrote: > I'm having trouble finding information about this on the web. I have a = SAS > backplane with redundant expanders designed so you can use redundant SA= S > controllers. Seems obvious to me that the drivers need to support two c= ards > pointing to the same drives. Does this work in FreeBSD? Does it matter > which HBAs I buy? The closest thing to what you want is gmultipath: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?gmultipath --------------enig9606B38C2A48FA327E40FD11 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBNuywACgkQ/QjVBj3/HSxDnACffoVB044jNcENMQLjOCQZxOuA qb4An3TYobL5eaWGSX8k7+W4VaCwNJ62 =7bK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9606B38C2A48FA327E40FD11--