On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:11 -0400, Dan Porat wrote: >> Hi , >> >> In the documentation of 2.6.34 it says "We have been working with >> several FC/SAS HBA vendors to enable the protection information to be >> transferred to and from their controllers" >> I would like to test SAS 520. > > So I'm having a little difficulty parsing this: SAS 520 is actually a > financial audit standard (which I really wish I didn't know about) ... I > assume you're actually talking about DIF/DIX? The integrity standard > for SCSI? > >>>You are right on the money. >>>I mean DIF/DIX . >>>The final purpose it to run a SATA 520 through a DIF supporting HBA , and a SAS/SATA dongle (interposer card). >>>As initial stage we would like to check SAS DIF field. >>>Afterwards just put it through a dongle to a SATA 520 sector size drive. >> Which Vendor and what specific SAS HBA model will support it ? >> Thanks > > I've added linux-scsi, since this is a SCSI question not an IDE one. > > The only SAS HBA supporting DIF I know of with a working Linux driver is > the mpt2sas. It supports DIF types 1 and 3. > >>Would you know of any specific LSI SAS/HBAmodel which will support SCSI DIF/DIX ? > James > > > Thanks -- 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
