From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Intel SASMF8I Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:55:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20100320135502.GA17517@infradead.org> References: <4BA3FD3E.9070801@gmail.com> <87d699441003191546v6c0f0b89t64ab93c4e3207f37@mail.gmail.com> <4BA402F0.1040501@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48863 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751457Ab0CTNzH (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:55:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA402F0.1040501@gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Marco Schindler Cc: Ilia Mirkin , Eric.Moore@lsi.com, DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04:16AM +0100, Marco Schindler wrote: > SASMF8I doesn't seem to have any jumpers for "regular" mode and I don't > want to use the sw raid of the chip. As far as I remember megasr didn't > let me access drives directly. Is there no option then, except patching > locally? I think we should add it in that case. There's no reason to cripple Linux on hardware just because the bios pretends it has some useless fake raid capabilities.