From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Artem Bokhan Subject: Re: Good SAS adapters for 6 Gb/s SATA SSD's (with TRIM)? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:34:13 +0700 Message-ID: <4E44F395.4010502@ngs.ru> References: <4E43F2C3.9000808@computerix.info> <4E44EFAE.9010800@ngs.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtpout4.ngs.ru ([195.93.186.210]:4794 "EHLO smtpout.ngs.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751951Ab1HLJek (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:34:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E44EFAE.9010800@ngs.ru> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org http://www.google.ru/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC0QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkb.lsi.com%2FExportPDF16515.aspx&rct=j&q=lsi%20trim&ei=PPNETuzgLIfMtAaoyKy4Bw&usg=AFQjCNFo139XTAeHefm4nnvHbrW52OZ7ug&cad=rja On 12.08.2011 16:17, Artem Bokhan wrote: > On 11.08.2011 22:18, Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche wrote: >> I'm looking for ways to hook up fast 6 Gb/s SATA SSD's (non-RAID!) >> to (server or i-X58) mainboards which do not have native 6 Gb/s SATA. >> >> From the reviews I've read so far, two things became obvious: >> * The SSD's I'm looking at really want a working SATA TRIM command. >> * All the onboard Marvell 88SE9128 (or ASmedia) solutions >> seriuosly lack performance, as do PCIe cards based on those chips. >> >> So basically, there seem to be two choices: >> 1.) LSI 2008 > > IT firmware supports TRIM. You may use > ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2008/ tools to flash IR firmware > instead of iMR (megaraid), then flash to IT firmware. Then you may flash > latest IT firmware to ensure that TRIM is supported. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html