Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising considering the binary driver... On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: On 15.11.2014 21:08, Bill Pechter wrote: I've got a really nice Lenovo D20 that I need to share between FreeBSD/Linux and Windows Server 2012 for some testing. I've got the Marvell driver up on Linux and Windows but it appears that I have to move the SATA drives to the Intel SATA chips if I want to share between FreeBSD/Linux/Windows. I hate to have to rebuild this all... Is there a test driver for the 88se63xx/64xx drivers available in 10.1 or -stable? I'm afraid there is no such one. That family of controllers is neither mvs(4) nor ahci(4). It is completely separate design, providing quite low-level interface to SAS ports (that means that support for wide ports, expanders, target mapping, etc. should be done manually inside the driver). I had a wish to implement it at some point, but had no documentation. Now I have some documentation and even some (old now) hardware, but not sure how much widespread/applicable are those chips now. Complains like that happen not so often and I am not sure I want to spend few months of work on discontinued hardware. Has Marvell released anything new from that line, like 12Gbps SAS, that could be interesting? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
On 11/21/2014 4:08 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising considering the binary driver... I have had good results with the LSI cards, both based on the 3ware driver (tws) and the mfi driver. The cost of the previous gen 6G SAS 9240-8si is quite reasonable and I can get great speeds and good monitoring through the available native FreeBSD tools (3dm,tw_cli,MegaCli,mfiutil) ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. -Jia-Shiun On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: On 15.11.2014 21:08, Bill Pechter wrote: I've got a really nice Lenovo D20 that I need to share between FreeBSD/Linux and Windows Server 2012 for some testing. I've got the Marvell driver up on Linux and Windows but it appears that I have to move the SATA drives to the Intel SATA chips if I want to share between FreeBSD/Linux/Windows. I hate to have to rebuild this all... Is there a test driver for the 88se63xx/64xx drivers available in 10.1 or -stable? I'm afraid there is no such one. That family of controllers is neither mvs(4) nor ahci(4). It is completely separate design, providing quite low-level interface to SAS ports (that means that support for wide ports, expanders, target mapping, etc. should be done manually inside the driver). I had a wish to implement it at some point, but had no documentation. Now I have some documentation and even some (old now) hardware, but not sure how much widespread/applicable are those chips now. Complains like that happen not so often and I am not sure I want to spend few months of work on discontinued hardware. Has Marvell released anything new from that line, like 12Gbps SAS, that could be interesting? -- Alexander Motin ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
I've got a really nice Lenovo D20 that I need to share between FreeBSD/Linux and Windows Server 2012 for some testing. I've got the Marvell driver up on Linux and Windows but it appears that I have to move the SATA drives to the Intel SATA chips if I want to share between FreeBSD/Linux/Windows. I hate to have to rebuild this all... Is there a test driver for the 88se63xx/64xx drivers available in 10.1 or -stable? Bill -- d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
