Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:04:16 +0100 | From | Marco Schindler <> | Subject | Re: Intel SASMF8I |
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On 19.03.10 23:46, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Marco Schindler > <marco.schindler@gmail.com> 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?
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