We are using SAS3 drives with LSI 9300-8e and SC837E26-RJBOD1 and it’s working 
great for the last 4 months.

I’m not sure if it’s running SAS2 or SAS3, since I dont see those information 
nowhere (I checked messages and sas3ircu). It only says SAS

Matej

> On 04 Sep 2016, at 16:46, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2016, Peter Tribble wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
>> bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is the LSI 9300-16i SAS support in OmniOS known to be robust?
>>> 
>>> I am planning to use it with the SuperMicro SC836BA-R920B 3U case and
>>> Supermicro X10DRi-T4+ motherboard to build a storage server.
>>> 
>>> Is there anything about this HBA and motherboard that might cause an issue?
>>> 
>> 
>> Should be good. We're using that X10DRi-T4+ motherboard with the LSI
>> 9300-8i HBA (in the 2U chassis,
>> where the 16i wouldn't fit), and everything has worked perfectly so far.
> 
> That is good to hear.  I did not see any hardware on the motherboard which is 
> not supported by OmniOS.
> 
> Something which is not clear to me (or to my computer builder) is if using a 
> 12gb SAS HBA and 12gb SAS disks with a passive backplane described by 
> SuperMicro as being 3g/6g might cause issues.  It is not clear if the end 
> devices somehow detect that the chassis is certified for 6g or if they will 
> use 12g and possibly work just fine, or encounter issues.  The signalling and 
> cables for 6g and 12g are the same, but with 12g using a higher clocking rate.
> 
> Bob
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