>>>>> "Ram" == Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Ram> On 03/28/2016 02:25 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >> I just went back and checked, and I got the: >> >> LSI 9211 SAS9211-8i 8port low profile 6Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter >> >> which was a DELL brand controller. The 9207 is another model which is >> also recommended, but this is from 2014 or even earlier. There might >> be newer models out there. >> >> I paid $123 plus shipping. Been very happy with it, not problems at >> all. Ram> I searched your description and got this >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-SAS-9211-8i-6Gbps-8Port-PCI-Express-SATA-SAS-Host-Bus-Adapter-Hot-/380703631558 Ram> Is this the one you are talking about? In my message I mentions this, >> www.ebay.com/itm/like/252048579357?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true That looks very much how I remember mine. Make sure you get a full height bracket when you order, that was one of the things I had to check as I recall now, since I have a full height tower system, not a 2U rack mounted system. Ram> Mine is cheaper, so it worries me (BTW, for LSI 9211-8i, the Ram> prices are all over the place). Yours claims RAID capability Ram> (assuming IR firmware) and the other seem to be no raid (may be Ram> IT firmware) I just flashed the standard LSI firmware from their site as I recall. I disabled any hardware RAID stuff as well. Since I can't just bounce the system to check, take what I say with a grain of salt. Ram> Both are from China, and like you say, not sure what I will get. I seem to recall I got it from someone in the US. The other trick I did was to put all my data volumes on the LSI controller, and just a pair of SSDs onto the internal SATA controllers. This way I know which devices I'll boot from, and it made it simpler to know I had updated and setup GRUB properly. You do want to test booting from a broken RAID1 boot device. When I recently did my big re-org, I found that to make it boot I had to move the working boot drive to the non-working slot, since of course the failed one was effectively /dev/first-drive and that's how grub needed to boot. John -- 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
