Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:20:25 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org>, pechter@gmail.com Subject: Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver? Message-ID: <546F2E09.5060003@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20141121090822.GH99957@funkthat.com> References: <CALwkMd3dR7zN9ZhdvBTjvkhSp8EbdaBCWcRFAoJ3HBhG6PtVbA@mail.gmail.com> <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org> <CAHNYxxM9vavw-6xVjgF4DFOHbkFUScd7cGkYEUJVz8yXOMshZw@mail.gmail.com> <20141121090822.GH99957@funkthat.com>
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On 11/21/2014 4:08 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: >> for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using >> 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. > > In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... > Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card > (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... > > I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising > considering the binary driver... I have had good results with the LSI cards, both based on the 3ware driver (tws) and the mfi driver. The cost of the previous gen 6G SAS 9240-8si is quite reasonable and I can get great speeds and good monitoring through the available native FreeBSD tools (3dm,tw_cli,MegaCli,mfiutil) ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/
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