Anybody using Serial SCSI on Linux? How's the support?
I've read on the web that most cards are supported but the
question is how well and is SAS supported at install time.
I'm currently using Slackware and would like to stay with
that, hence the cross-post.

I'm thinking of using this adapter:

http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/prod...1er/index.html

Any experience with this one? It's a PCI Express card which supports
both SATA and SAS in a low profile form factor.
Thanks,
Doug

dhs wrote:

> Anybody using Serial SCSI on Linux? How's the support?
> I've read on the web that most cards are supported but the
> question is how well and is SAS supported at install time.
> I'm currently using Slackware and would like to stay with
> that, hence the cross-post.
>
> I'm thinking of using this adapter:
>
>
http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/prod...1er/index.html
>
> Any experience with this one? It's a PCI Express card which supports
> both SATA and SAS in a low profile form factor.
> Thanks,
> Doug

Check back in google groups about 2 months or so on this group or
uk.comp.os.linux - this was discussed and I mentioned a very good
experience with an LSI chipset - but I can't remember all the details...

Cheers

Tim

In comp.os.linux.hardware dhs <dhs@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:

| Anybody using Serial SCSI on Linux? How's the support?
| I've read on the web that most cards are supported but the
| question is how well and is SAS supported at install time.
| I'm currently using Slackware and would like to stay with
| that, hence the cross-post.
|
| I'm thinking of using this adapter:
|
| http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/prod...1er/index.html
|
| Any experience with this one? It's a PCI Express card which supports
| both SATA and SAS in a low profile form factor.

Slackware is very good at accepting changes like a new kernel. So this
is really a kernel issue (and apparently resolved per another followup to
this post). Once you have a kernel that handles this, it should work in
Slackware just fine. If you compile the driver support directly into the
kernel, it's just a drop in and you're good to go. If you want it to be
a module (I personally see no advantage to this when you are compiling
your own kernel unless you only want to use the device sometimes and the
driver is rather large) you'll just have to add the appropriate driver
insertion.

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