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

[Fred Liu]

Keith Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at joyent.com>于2014年5月5日星期一写道：

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:49:15AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote:
>
> > Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot
> work with 6H/7H
> > series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in
> vain.
>
> Are you sure the 6-series needs more than just PCI IDs?  It's the same
> ASIC I know worked in the past, so I'd expect it wouldn't be terribly
> hard to get it working.  Are you interested in pursuing this?  I intend
> to engage with these guys in an effort to get documentation so it can be
> a first-class citizen in illumos again, but I'd be very happy to see
> someone else pick that up.  It's likely just a matter of finding the
> right engineering contact inside PMC (I wouldn't bother with the Adaptec
> side other than to help you make the business case).
>

I have a 6805H in hand and illumos can not detect it. But I don't have
experience
porting driver in FreeBSD it has to illumos. And I do NOT want to waste my
money.:-)
Therefore I would like to do anything to pursue this as long as I can!