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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