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From: Johannes Truschnigg <johannes@truschnigg.info>
Subject: Re: Is the LSI SAS9211-8i still the go to HBA?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:52:56 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:40:43AM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> On 09/28/17 10:34, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > [...]
> > So, is there another candidate for 8 way HBA for use with linux software
> > raid?
>=20
> We operate a couple of SAS3008 based cards from Broadcom formerly known
> as Avago formerly known as LSI ;)
>=20
> E.g. the 9300-8i card which we flashed ourselves from IR to IT mode work
> quite nicely without any complain at the moment.

Same here - just make sure to flash a recent-ish firmware image. The 3008 w=
as
unusable garbage before the (iirc) "P8" release for us.

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