It may depend on the firmware you're running. We've got a SAS1068E based
card in Dell R710 at the moment, connected to an external SAS JBOD, and
we did have problems with the as shipped firmware.
However we've upgraded that, and _so far_ haven't had further issues. I
didn't do the upgrade myself, so I'm not sure what it shipped with, but
we're currently running:
Main menu, select an option: [1-99 or e/p/w or 0 to quit] 1
Current active firmware version is 011a0000 (1.26.00)
Firmware image's version is MPTFW-01.26.00.00-IT
LSI Logic
x86 BIOS image's version is MPTBIOS-6.24.00.00 (2008.07.01)
FCode image's version is MPT SAS FCode Version 1.00.49 (2007.09.21)
We've got multiple ISCSI and NFS clients all running disk benchmarks in
loops to produce load, as well as repeated scrubs on the server, and
we've been running several days now without fault.We're going to give it
several more days before we sign it off as stable tho!
Regards,
Tristan.
On 26/01/2010 10:47 AM, Mark Nipper wrote:
As in they work without any possibility of mpt timeout issues? I'm at my wits
end with a machine right now that has an integrated 1068E and is dying almost
hourly at this point.
If I could spend three hundred dollars or so and have my problems magically go
away, I'd love to pull the trigger on one of these SAS3081E-R cards right now.
Let me know if I can provide any more feedback on my existing 1068E problems.
I followed all the threads, but nothing apparently really fixes the problem. I
was running 2009.06 (111b I think) and I just updated to 131 earlier today with
more of the same problems. My ZFS pool is in such a sad state, it takes an
hour or so at most with all the resilvering happening before the machine goes
to lunch. All of this on a SuperMicro motherboard and chassis with port
expanders.
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