RE: Question regarding SAS controllers.

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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:



On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Moore, Eric wrote:

Firmware and BIOS for both Integrated RAID and Initiator-Target.  Must
boot to DOS to run utility.  Batch file simplifies installation.

Welcome to LSI Logic Integrated SAS Flash Utility
      This Utility will upgrade your LSI SAS3442E HBA


Justin - We have linux tools for flashing firmware and bios.


Eric, one final question:
http://www.lsi.jp/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/lsisas3041er/index.html
This obviously has 4 SAS/SATA ports (regular cables) and looks like it would be great in Linux/SW raid for SAS/SATA disks.

This (8 port version):
http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/lsisas3081er/index.html
Has two SFF-8087 mini-SAS connectors.

It states "two (4) x1 SATA cables"

Does this mean:

8087 ------------> 8087 (with 4 lanes)

Thus it would require the purchase of an additional breakout cable or attachment to a special SATA/SAS enclosure.

or:

8087 ------------> regular sas/sata/1
                  regular sas/sata/2
                  regular sas/sata/3
                  regular sas/sata/4

Justin.


Newegg has the answer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118092
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/16-118-092-07.jpg

Follow-up:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118058
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118092

How come the reviews are so bad for these cards? (They mostly used the HW raid function, which I am not interested in).

Eric,

If one runs:

dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/dev/null bs=1M &

For eight disk drives on the 8-port SAS controller in an x8 or x16 slot, will they be able to achieve the maximum bandwidth of each drive, for example, velociraptor = 800MiB/s so it should 800MiB/s in aggregate reads (using direct-bare mode), NOT on-board raid?

Justin.
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