On Tue November 10 2009, Richard Scobie wrote: > Kristleifur Daðason wrote: > > 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.) > > You should have no problem at all. I have used a number of the: > > http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/ > combo/sas3442e-r/index.html > > controllers. > > The only thing to watch out for, as has been discussed in the last few > days, is that use of smartmontools to monitor disk health on these 1068 > based cards, wll cause drives to be offlined, when used with recent > kernels. > > Regards, Thats the problem he was trying to get away from. the MV8 controller likes to offline disks when a few smart commands arrive. at least with the main kernel drivers. But then the main kernel mvsas drivers decide to give up if you even attempt to start a raid array on them. The controller locks up and you have to reboot. Most of the time a reboot even fails when it tries to sync the block devices, so a hard reset is in order. But as I mentioned in a previous message, the driver snapshot I got from a nice fellow seems to work fine now. I hope it gets into the kernel sometime soon. > Richard > -- > 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 > -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- 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
