On 23/09/2011 14:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 9/23/2011 12:10 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
I /really really/ wish the driver for this card was more stable, but
you deal
with what you've got (in my case a $100 2 port SAS/8 port SATA card).
Please don't shield the identity of the problem card. Others need to
know of your problems. An educated guess tells me it is one of...
Card: SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Marvell 88SE6480
Driver: MVSAS
Card: HighPoint RocketRAID 2680/2680SGL Marvell 88SE6485
Driver: MVSAS
This ASIC/driver combo is so historically horrible with Linux that I'm
surprised all the owners haven't had a big bon fire party and thrown all
the cards in. Or simply Ebay'd them to Windows users, where they seem to
work relatively OK.
Solve your problem with a 50% more $$ LSI SAS1068E based Intel 8 port
PCIe x4 SAS/SATA HBA, which uses the mptsas driver:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117157
It seems this is the card most users switch to after being burned by the
cheap Marvell based SAS 2xSFF8087 cards. The 1068E cards and the mptsas
driver are far more reliable, stable, and faster. Many OEM cards from
IBM, Dell, etc, use this chip and can be had on Ebay for less than the
new retail Intel card. In your situation I'd probably buy new Intel just
in case. Hope this info/insight helps.
The SAS card I had was an LSI SAS1068 card, with 2 SAS (no SATA), Dell
brand. It worked flawlessly with Linux right up to the day the card
died out of the blue.
With a sample size of 1, I don't have the statistics to justify judging
the card or the controller, but I certainly will be sceptical about
using such a card again.
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