Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

[Carson Gaspar]

I'll chime in as a happy owner of the LSI SAS 3081E-R PCI-E board. It 
works just fine. You need to get "lsiutil" from the LSI web site to 
fully access all the functionality, and they cleverly hide the download 
link only under their FC HBAs on their support site, even though it 
works for everything.

As for identifying disks, you can just use lsiutil:

root:gandalf 0 # lsiutil -p 1 42

LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility, Version 1.62, January 14, 2009

1 MPT Port found

     Port Name         Chip Vendor/Type/Rev    MPT Rev  Firmware Rev  IOC
 1.  mpt0              LSI Logic SAS1068E B3     105      011a0000     0

mpt0 is /dev/cfg/c6

 B___T___L  Type       Operating System Device Name
 0   0   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0s2
 0   1   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t1d0s2
 0   2   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t2d0s2
 0   3   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t3d0s2
 0   4   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t4d0s2
 0   5   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t5d0s2
 0   6   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t6d0s2
 0   7   0  Disk       /dev/rdsk/c6t7d0s2



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