On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 12:09:52 PM MST Joe Landman wrote: > On 12/27/2016 11:57 AM, IW News wrote: > > On 27/12/16 17:12, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 8:53:07 AM MST IW News wrote: > >>> On 26/12/16 22:25, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > >>>> On Friday, December 23, 2016 9:01:40 AM MST IW News wrote: > >>>>> Hello, > > [...] > > >>>>> If thats the mvsas driver, god help you. I had nothing but > >>>>> troubles with > >>>> > >>>> it > >>>> for a good year or two or possibly more and it was never fixed or > >>>> really > >>>> acknowledged, so I sold that card (a supermicro aoc-saslp-mv8) and > >>>> picked > >>>> up a IBM m1015 (LSI 9211-8i a-like) and haven't looked back. > >>>> > >>>> Basically it would reset a lot, and lock up. AND I believe it > >>>> caused a lot > >>>> of silent corruption as well. > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> So there is no support for the mvsas driver? > >>> > >>> The controller is integrated in the motherboard. I could by a PCIe one > >>> but, what's the deal them? > >>> > >>> Thank you. > >>> > >>> Iñigo. > >> > >> I don't know that there isn't support, there has been commits to that > >> driver > >> pretty regularly even when i was having problems. I just found there > >> was no > >> support for my particular chipset. I hope you fare better than I did. > >> Contact > >> linux-scsi as was suggested, maybe they can help. > > > > I already contacted. No answer. > > > > Maybe there is no mvsas developer active there now. > > mvsas support under Linux is terrible. I know you probably don't want > to hear this, but get another card. Someone recommended an LSI9211 > card. Past experience with those have been spotty. They are cheap, but > I'd recommend a 9207-8i. Costs a little more, but generally works very > well. > > Again, if you are using an mvsas based card, you should expect problems > and data corruption. If you use the 9207, it should work nicely. > > The windows world has all sorts of workarounds for wonky cards/chipsets > in their drivers. Generally, if the driver is not actively supported in > linux and up to date, you are likely going to have problems. If others > are reporting problems (google "mvsas problems in linux" if you want to > see how long people have been having problems with the cards), stay far > away from it. I had hoped things improved :( when I was having problems with my mvsas based card, there was someone making commits to the code from marvell and I got some kind of response once or twice, but stopped replying and problems were never fixed. I however haven't had any real issues with my dirt cheap ($50-100) IBM M1015 cards (I have three). A lot of people have had good results with them. Technically its a 9220, which is quite similar to a 9211, but has some slight differences. -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
