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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:12:11 -0600
From:      Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Cc:        Peter Lai <cowbert@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ZFS and "internal" mfi RAID cards, the eternal question
Message-ID:  <201101260812.17434.josh@tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimv4gBToLf3e4tX%2BfEZoDxueH9cqA3vXQtzks35@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, January 14, 2011 08:03:01 am Peter Lai wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> wrote:
> > On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Peter Lai wrote:
> >> Is there a reason you are ordering your Dells with H700 instead of
> >> H200; do you really want the battery backed cache anyway?
> >> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/to=
pi
> >> cs/en/us/raid_controller?c=3Dus&l=3Den&cs=3D555 suggests the H200 has =
jbod
> >> mode...
> >=20
> > Indeed, it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Or am I wrong?
>=20
> Good point. My guess here is that as an LSI card, it's not really
> supposed be picked up by mfi, but mpt. But most of my experience with
> dell has been to not even bother with the addon raid and just stick
> with the mpt controllers.  Of course, they only support up to 8 disks,
> so if you need more than that...well :(

The H200 is a 6 gbps LSI SAS HBA under the hood that is not supported by mp=
t. =20
There is a new driver in HEAD called mps that supports the card.  People ha=
ve=20
had varying amounts of success running the driver ported to 8.x.  I can=20
provide you with a .ko that works on 8.x, but it comes with a YMMV warranty.

=46WIW, this driver won't be appearing in 8.2 due to various concerns the p=
eople=20
working on it had with it.

=2D-=20
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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