Re: Highpoint DC7280

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

On 06/18/2012 01:52 AM, Christian Brandt wrote:
> My company got hold of a Highpoint DC7280 for evaluation purposes. As we
> weren't that much impressed - mostly due abysmal propetiary drivers and
> support - I got it as a toy gift to play at home.
>
> Abstract in novella form: it is a dirt cheap 32 Port SATA-Controller. It
> features eight Marvell Chips each with a four port SATA Port Multiplier.
> Highpoint has abandoned all support (as usual) right a week before
> releasing it and the driver - dated 2011-06 - needs even some fiddling
> to compile under 3.0. Then it crashed upon writing. Besides that it is
> not THAT bad... gets around 250MB/s per Controller even with all eight
> controllers under maximum load.
>
> Is anyone else poking it with a stick?
>
> [1] http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/PDF/DC7280/DC7280_DS.pdf
>
> [2]
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/DC7280/driver/Linux/dc7280-linux-src-v1.0-110621-1313.tar.gz
>   (if KERNELVERSION==2.6 then... ok, so much about that one...)
>

What does lspci -vv show for that board?

It looks like that driver contains a binary blob so who knows what it is 
actually doing internally.