[OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

[Fred Liu]

Keith Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at joyent.com>于2014年5月1日星期四写道：

> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:13:38AM +0800, Fred Liu wrote:
>
> > > That uses the PM8001, which I believe is the same ASIC I have direct
> > > experience with.  So it would be good to look at too, yes.
> > >
> > > [fred]: gotcha! I will give it a try. Does it work well with commodity
> > > sata drives?
>
> Unknown.  The interface to the ASIC is basically SAS-only; the model in
> the 8001 was that the SATL is provided by software, not firmware or
> hardware.  Presumably PMC/Adapted implemented a SATL in their bundled
> drivers for legacy OSs.  This is markedly different from LSI's model
> (and a big advantage of PMC's).  I do not know how far they got on
> making that work, because by the time we started using this device we
> had long since decided that we would never again ship a storage product
> with SATA devices in it.  So from my perspective this HBA is completely
> untested with SATA end devices ("commodity" or otherwise).  It may work,
> it may not.  Certainly it was intended that it be usable in that
> configuration by the people at Sun who wrote the drivers, and it is
> possible to make it work if it does not.  But I don't recommend using
> SATA, ever.  SAS disks cost $30 more.  Best $30 you'll ever spend.
>

  [fred]：ok. Let's see how it goes after I get the hba.


   Thanks.

 Fred