> I have a Dell server that was advertised to support 4x3.5 + 2x2.5 > drives but when I popped it open I found there are only 4 SATA ports on > the motherboard total. So of the 6 claimed drives, I can actually > only install 3 drives because the stock DVD drive consumes a mobo port. > > Speaking with Dell, they are recommending their part number PEXSAT32 > which is a rebadged StarTech product based on the Marvell 88SE9123 > chipset. From posts I saw from people running various OS, that chipset > is flaky on everything but Windows. > > My local shop has several el-cheapo no-brand cards based on the ASMedia > ASM1061 chipset. From what I could find on the net those cards work ok > but they can be slow. They also have a card based on the Silicon Image > SiI3114 chipset. I didn't find much info on this one except for Windows > victims claiming it was great or sucked. > > Can anybody recommend some good 2 or 4 port SATA (internal) expansion > cards or a SAS HBA that works well with OpenBSD?
I've got an mfi and an mfii card in two servers, both have worked well, I do not run softraid on them though. mfi0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS2108 GEN2" rev 0x05: apic 2 int 2 mfi0: "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i", firmware 12.15.0-0239, 512MB cache mfii0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS2208" rev 0x05: msi mfii0: "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i", firmware 23.34.0-0017, 1024MB cache .jh
