[OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 08/24/2012 10:12 PM, Jason Matthews wrote:
> 
> 
> I only have one gripe with the mpt2 based cards (2008, 2308, etc) is that
> they cant currently be used as boot devices in the presence of an Intel 910
> SSD. I have defect 490258-218190922 logged at LSI but there is seemingly no
> movement after several weeks. The status of this can be tracked at
> http://broken.net/intel-910-ssd/intel-910-ssd-compatibility-issues-with-othe
> r-lsi-mpt2-based-products-part-i/ Ironically, the Intel 910 also uses an
> mpt2 chip.
> 
> My next buy of servers are going out with the EOL'd SAS3081E-R cards which
> are 1068e based so I use 800GB Intel 910s. I prefer to boot from LSI cards
> as sort of the devil I know as opposed to the devil I don't in the case of
> an onboard controller.

Can't you put the SSDs behind SAS interposers? (Might be problematic due
to the interposers being built for 3.5'' drives.)

Cheers,

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Saso