>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Landman <joe.landman@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Joe> 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, Joe> [...] >>>>> 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. Joe> mvsas support under Linux is terrible. I know you probably don't Joe> want to hear this, but get another card. Someone recommended an Joe> LSI9211 card. Past experience with those have been spotty. They Joe> are cheap, but I'd recommend a 9207-8i. Costs a little more, but Joe> generally works very well. I bought one and it's been running rock solid in my home system for months and months. Got it off ebay for around $120 or so, forget the exact price. Joe> Again, if you are using an mvsas based card, you should expect Joe> problems and data corruption. If you use the 9207, it should Joe> work nicely. I concur, LSI makes some solid gear. Get the ones without the RAID ROM too if you can, or flash it and just use it as a JBOD controller. Mine is: 02:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) -- 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
