On 09/07/2010 02:46 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Il 09/07/10 20:26, Torbjorn Granlund ha scritto: >> Is the any PCIe SAS controller that is supported by FreeBSD 8.1 that I >> can purchase today? The controller should preferably be low-profile. >> RAID is not needed since I have just one disk, but if only RAID >> controllers are available, I can live with that. > > I have never seen a non-RAID SAS controller in my life: notice I'm not > saying mean they don't exist, but everyone I used was RAID capable.
I'm currently using a Perc5i PCIe 2-port SAS controller in production on 7.2-RELEASE amd64. It's whatever came with the Dell PowerEdge 1950 I'm running, and it's been rock-solid; no RAID capabilities at all, but hosts a gmirror just fine. It identifies as such: m...@pci0:2:8:0: class=0x010000 card=0x1f061028 chip=0x00541000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)' device = 'SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068 -StorPort' class = mass storage subclass = SCSI -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <cyber...@cyberleo.net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"