Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
Mike Tancsa <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.scsi,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware |
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| Organization | Sentex Communications |
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On 11/21/2014 4:08 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: >> for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using >> 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. > > In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... > Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card > (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... > > I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising > considering the binary driver... I have had good results with the LSI cards, both based on the 3ware driver (tws) and the mfi driver. The cost of the previous gen 6G SAS 9240-8si is quite reasonable and I can get great speeds and good monitoring through the available native FreeBSD tools (3dm,tw_cli,MegaCli,mfiutil) ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, [email protected] Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"