* Justin Piszcz (jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: <snip> > Eric, > > Thanks, I had checked this out earlier but the only non-raid SAS HBAs > (those HBAs that do not end in -R) that are JBOD seem to be external only > (e.g., do not contain any internal SAS ports?) > > Justin. For some of the SAS cards that LSI produce there are 2 sets of firmware on their site and you can load the non-RAID firmware; both versions will let you drive stuff as individual drives (e.g. tape drives or inidivudal discs) but the non-RAID firmware is a LOT faster for that. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
