Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-19 Thread Barry Pederson
Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:15:59 -0600 Barry Pederson wrote BP> If someone wanted to make PCIe compatible brackets for this affordable BP> card, they'd probably sell a fair number to small shops or home users. Yeah, I would also buy some. :-) I was browsing this bracket mf

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:15:59 -0600 Barry Pederson wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: BP> What I was questioning was where the OP said: "it fits into a standard BP> PCIe slot and works nicely there as far as I can tell" - which to me BP> sounds like you

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:35:56 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: FC> > Hm, I don't know the recent exchange rate, but are you sure this is FC> > the same card? I paid something like 80,-€ (excl. VAT). FC> Oops, you're right, was

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:03 -0600 Barry Pederson wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > I guess the version of the card I have here was actually intended to > > be used in some kind of special Supermirco-Extension Slot. However, > > it fits into a stan

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Jonathan
On 11/17/2009 7:29 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: LSI SAS 3081E-R8-port SAS/SATA PCIe I've had excellent luck with LSI cards in a moderate usage home environment. I've had the 3041 and 3081 and never had any issues with either card. I've never really stress tested them for performance with

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Barry Pederson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The UIO slot itself is proprietary, but provides pinout interfaces to support both PCIe 1x, 4x, and 8x, as well as PCI (32-bit and 64-bit), and PCI-X (presumably 100 and 133MHz). But ultimately it depends on what board offers what pinouts through the UIO slot. Rather than

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Brian Whalen wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), and have heard good

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > By the way, I'll add that the AOC-USASLP-L8i is **not** compatible with > the UIO riser/adapter for the X7SBi.  This should be apparent just from > examining the location of the PCIe x8 slot on the RAID card vs.  where > the CSE-RR1U-ELi P

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:00:27AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:37:03AM -0600, Barry Pederson wrote: > > Gerrit Kühn wrote: > > >On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > > >about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: &

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:37:03AM -0600, Barry Pederson wrote: > Gerrit Kühn wrote: > >On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > >about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > > >FC> > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Whalen
Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD. Any comments on their qualit

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Barry Pederson
Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: FC> > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. FC> > Should be even cheaper than the ones you mentioned and comes with a FC> >

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
2009/11/18 Gerrit Kühn : > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > FC> > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. > FC> > Should be even cheaper than the ones you mentioned a

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Polyack
Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD. Any comments on thei

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: FC> > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. FC> > Should be even cheaper than the ones you mentioned and comes with a FC> > LSI chip supported

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
2009/11/18 Gerrit Kühn : > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:29:06 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > about Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > FC> Any recommendations on other SAS/SATA controllers to look at (just not > FC> anything with MegaRAID in the name)? > > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i car

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: >> I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), >> and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD.  Any >> comments on their quality/performance

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:05:45AM +, Pete French wrote: > > better driver for this marvell chip. If someone gets to port it to > > FreeBSD, the card may be pretty decent choice for those who have PCI-X > > slot on-board. > > I have PCI-X and just purchased an unbranded card based > on the SiL

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Thomas Ronner
On 18 Nov 2009, at 10:17, Gerrit Kühn wrote: Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card All my childhood traumas magically went away when I bought this card. Recommended! Thomas___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Pete French
> better driver for this marvell chip. If someone gets to port it to > FreeBSD, the card may be pretty decent choice for those who have PCI-X > slot on-board. I have PCI-X and just purchased an unbranded card based on the SiL3124 chipset, as I was only using SATA 1 before. I didn't expect much, bu

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:29:06 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote about Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: FC> Any recommendations on other SAS/SATA controllers to look at (just not FC> anything with MegaRAID in the name)? I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. Should be even

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Rink Springer
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), > and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD. Any > comments on their quality/performance/reliability? I have got an Areca ARC-1110 4x SATA2 PCI-X ca

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Artem Belevich
Hi, > If that one uses the LSI1068 chipset, do you know which one uses the > LSI1078 chipset? Supermicro's AOC-USAS-H8iR uses LSI1078: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-H8iR.cfm Dell PERC 6/i is based on LSI1078 as well. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/g

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: >>  LSI SAS 3080X-R    8-port SATA/SATA PCI-X > > This one uses LSI1068 chip which is supported by mpt driver. I'm using > motherboard with an on-board equivalent of this and don't have much to > complain about. I did see some CRC errors with

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Artem Belevich
In general, I've found following page very informative about what's available: http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1413050 I've also tried AOC-SAT2-MV8: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm It's based on Marvell 88sx8061 chipset. Technically it is supported

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Artem Belevich
>  LSI SAS 3080X-R    8-port SATA/SATA PCI-X This one uses LSI1068 chip which is supported by mpt driver. I'm using motherboard with an on-board equivalent of this and don't have much to complain about. I did see some CRC errors with SATA drives in 3Gbps mode, but those went away after updating fi