From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Ramesh Subject: Re: Is the LSI SAS9211-8i still the go to HBA? Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:37:11 -0500 Message-ID: <5819b1af-1da3-7c64-31d0-574395faa31b@gmail.com> References: <1d014bd9-7946-ba3e-f5fb-f64a92ccc769@eyal.emu.id.au> <77d0cd80-40b3-acb2-ba8a-e3650ad1b734@aei.mpg.de> <20170928085255.i6ogmdyf6xwic5kv@vault.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170928085255.i6ogmdyf6xwic5kv@vault.lan> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Truschnigg , Carsten Aulbert Cc: Eyal Lebedinsky , list linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 09/28/2017 03:52 AM, Johannes Truschnigg wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:40:43AM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote: >> Hi >> >> On 09/28/17 10:34, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >>> [...] >>> So, is there another candidate for 8 way HBA for use with linux software >>> raid? >> We operate a couple of SAS3008 based cards from Broadcom formerly known >> as Avago formerly known as LSI ;) >> >> E.g. the 9300-8i card which we flashed ourselves from IR to IT mode work >> quite nicely without any complain at the moment. > Same here - just make sure to flash a recent-ish firmware image. The 3008 was > unusable garbage before the (iirc) "P8" release for us. > I have 9211 (for about 9 months). Had to flash IT firmware. It is a bit slow in enumerrating attached disks and sometimes kernel misses a disk or two at boot up that shows up afterwards. This kind of messes up md. I suspect this is more of the problem with ubuntu 14.04 I have, rather than md or 9211 problem. However, simple re-add fixes it. Since upgrade to newer version is a problem for me, I am just dealing with it. So, you may not even have this problem. Ramesh