Re: ssacli start rebuild?

[hw <hw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 07:11 -0800, John Pierce wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 4:57 AM hw <hw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 16:38 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> > 
> > > > And where
> > > > do you get cost-efficient cards that can do JBOD?
> > > 
> > > $69, 8 SATA/SAS ports: https://www.newegg.com/p/0ZK-08UH-0GWZ1
> > 
> > That says it's for HP.  So will you still get firmware updates once
> > the warranty is expired?  Does it exclusively work with HP hardware?
> > 
> > And are these good?
> > 
> 
> That specific card is a bad choice, it's the very obsolete SAS1068E chip,
> which was SAS 1.0, with max 2gb per disk.
> 

Thanks!  That's probably why it isn't so expensive.

> Cards based on the SAS 2008, 2308, and 3008 chips are a much better choice.
> 
> Any oem card with these chips can be flashed with generic LSI/Broadcom IT
> firmware.
> 

I don't like the idea of flashing one.  I don't have the firmware and I don't
know if they can be flashed with Linux.  Aren't there any good --- and cost
efficient --- ones that do JBOD by default, preferably including 16-port cards
with mini-SAS connectors?


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