From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Aulbert Subject: Re: Is the LSI SAS9211-8i still the go to HBA? Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:40:43 +0200 Message-ID: <77d0cd80-40b3-acb2-ba8a-e3650ad1b734@aei.mpg.de> References: <1d014bd9-7946-ba3e-f5fb-f64a92ccc769@eyal.emu.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1d014bd9-7946-ba3e-f5fb-f64a92ccc769@eyal.emu.id.au> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Eyal Lebedinsky , list linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi On 09/28/17 10:34, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > It is old now (I see it mentioned a few years ago), and downloading the > tools to > flash it to IT mode recently became difficult (is there an official site?). > Yet it is relatively cheap. > > 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. Cheers Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Callinstraße 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Phone: +49 511 762 17185