Re: Are SATA port multipliers supported in -CURRENT?

Ståle Kristoffersen wrote:
On 2007-07-25 at 14:43, Scott Long wrote:
Steven Schlansker wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am considering buying a SiI 3132 SATA card along with a 5-1 port
multiplier. I'm trying to see if FreeBSD supports such a configuration,
but the only reference found to port multipliers and FreeBSD was some
poor, lonely man asking about a "porn multiplier" crashing his system on
startup. :-p
The thread trailed off quickly, without resolution.

So my question is: Are port multipliers supported in CURRENT? Are
there any caveats? I don't see anything in UPDATING, the handbook, or
our friend Google. I want to check that it is supported before I drop
$80 on it :) Thanks a bunch!
Steven
They are only supported at the moment by controllers that are
intelligent enough to hide the details of how they work from the OS.
The SiI family probably doesn't fall into this category. I'm working
on this as part of a larger SATA/SAS/SCSI/FC overhaul, but it'll be
a few months before there are any results.

Whats the status of freebsd's port multiplier support?
I'm looking into buying a Norco DS-1220,
http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=12&modelno=ds1220
(but without the controller)
Will it work, and if yes what controllers would it work with?


It might work with an LSI SAS controller. I still don't have support written for generic SAS/SATA controllers.

Scott

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