Michael Evans put forth on 1/21/2011 10:00 AM: > The SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS SAS RAID > Controller seems to fit my needs and budget except for one glaring > omission on Supermicro's product page, and every other site that > blindly copies it. > > Has anyone tested this hardware with a 48-bit LBA required drive (EG > one of the 3TB drives that still exposes 512k sectors)? NewEgg has an excellent return policy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358 But, BTW, if you can afford over $1000 of 3TB drives, why are you demanding to go so cheap with the HBA? There are plenty of much better LSI based dual SFF8087 HBAs available with no LBA or driver issues. For instance: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117157 $155 Quality/compatible LSI SAS1068E chip+driver vs $109 Marvell 88SE6480 less than quality chip+driver If you can afford 5+ 3TB drives you can certainly afford an extra ~$50 for a decent quality known to work SAS/SATA HBA. I say 5+ because you're obviously starting out with 5 or you'd be looking at cards with a single SFF8087, or simply 4 individual SATA connectors. I can't imagine an easier decision to make: $50 for guaranteed piece of mind, performance, compatibility. -- Stan -- 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
