Re: Status of the LSI 2108

[James Shubin]

Thanks Randy for sending me in the right direction.
Hello linux-scsi and LSI. Any thoughts to the below question would be
much appreciated!

James


On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 15:34 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:25:53 -0500 James Shubin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been trying to find out if the LSI 2108 is fully supported in the
> > vanilla kernel, and any thoughts as to the quality/robustness.
> > 
> > This seems to be the correct source:
> > ftp://ftp.supermicro.nl/driver/SAS/LSI/2108/Driver/Linux/v04.31/
> > however I'm not sure at all if it's maintained, or what. I would
> > outright test this myself, however I haven't bought the servers yet
> > 
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Please cc-me on replies.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Probably better to ask on the linux-scsi mailing list [added].
> Also added the lsi.com email address.
> 
> 
> drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c contains this:
> 
> 	/* Liberator ~ 2108 */
> 	{ MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_1,
> 		PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
> 	{ MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_2,
> 		PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
> 	{ MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_3,
> 		PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID },
> 
> so it looks like there is at least some basic support for the 2108.
> 
> 
> ---
> ~Randy
> *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***


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