From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Schindler Subject: Re: Intel SASMF8I Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:04:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4BA402F0.1040501@gmail.com> References: <4BA3FD3E.9070801@gmail.com> <87d699441003191546v6c0f0b89t64ab93c4e3207f37@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com ([209.85.218.209]:51855 "EHLO mail-bw0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809Ab0CSXEU (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:04:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d699441003191546v6c0f0b89t64ab93c4e3207f37@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Ilia Mirkin Cc: Eric.Moore@lsi.com, DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 19.03.10 23:46, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Marco Schindler > wrote: >> Hello, >> this card (using LSISAS1068(E)) is not recognized by FUSION_SAS, after >> patching the device code it appears to work nicely. >> > > I was 99% of the way there to submit a similar patch (actually there's > a few more places where you want to add the new ID), but noticed a > previous discussion when a comparable patch was rejected. Turns out > there was a jumper on my motherboard (Supermicro X8DT3) which switches > between "raid" and "regular" mode (except they were called something > much fancier), and the regular mode switches the PCI ID to 0x58 which > in turn is recognized. [And the mptsas driver doesn't support the RAID > features anyways... there's a what appears to be proprietary driver > for that, megasr, which I did not need.] 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?