Hi, I'm looking to replace a problematic Marvell PCIe SAS JBOD controller from Supermicro, type AOC-SASLP-MV8. (mdadm freaks out on it and the controller drops the drives - there has been discussion of the problem on the list. Seems to be a mvsas driver problem but seems to surface only under mdadm use.) It's a nice controller, but we have to get an array going, so I'm shelving the Marvell card and getting a new one. I'll be using mdadm raid5 / raid6 over the controller. This one, LSI SAS 3081E-R, looks good with eight SAS ports for around $200: http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/internal/sas3081e-r/index.html I can't find anything concrete regarding Linux, but I did find a known-good confirmation for Solaris/ZFS here: http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2008/06/recommended-disk-controllers-for-zfs.html Can anyone confirm/deny that the PCIe JBOD controllers from LSI work on Linux out of the box? Or give other recommendations for 8 port controllers in the $150-$200 range? (Or thereabouts. It'd be great to know about any known-good 4-port controllers for even up to $250.) Thanks! -- Kristleifur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
