From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baoquan Zhang Subject: DIF/DIX in mpt3sas Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:57:24 -0500 Message-ID: <59D68167-CD5A-4CD6-8382-7DA70A4B268C@umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from mta-p6.oit.umn.edu ([134.84.196.206]:60721 "EHLO mta-p6.oit.umn.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505AbcF3BxB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:53:01 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mta-p6.oit.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9E77CD for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-p6.oit.umn.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta-p6.oit.umn.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HzbDzdpXIhUq for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:57:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail-it0-f72.google.com (mail-it0-f72.google.com [209.85.214.72]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mta-p6.oit.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B06C27B8 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:57:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail-it0-f72.google.com with SMTP id f6so132269481ith.1 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alireza Haghdoost , du , Raghu Raja Chandrasekar Hi there, Thanks for reading my email. I am a Ph.D student of University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Recently, I am working on a project of T10 PI-capable MD module. However, I fail to use DIX with the HBA/driver combination of LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 (rev 02) /mpt3sas even though I have formatted the drives with DIF protection type 1. May I know if DIX (data integrity extension) is supported in mpt3sas driver? Thanks, Baoquan Zhang