From: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>
Subject: Re: Question regarding SAS controllers.
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:11:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da824cf30811240811l416431f5kf56e0925f561342@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811221645250.707@p34.internal.lan>
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:
> Do any SAS controllers exist that are not RAID?
>
> Or to put it another way, if one wants to use SAS disks for example and NOT
> export them as JBOD or use them as RAID, is there a normal controller?
Besides mptsas, there is mvsas (Marvell 6480 chip , IIRC).
> Back in the days of regular SCSI you had SCSI controllers and SCSI raid
> controllers, when searching for SAS controllers now, all that comes up is
> hundreds of SAS-Raid controllers.
Because lots of the windows server users demand HW RAID?
And it's a "value add"; vendors can charge more money for the RAID cards.
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-24 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-22 21:46 Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 21:51 ` Moore, Eric
2008-11-22 21:59 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 22:21 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2008-11-22 22:28 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 22:33 ` Moore, Eric
2008-11-22 22:38 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-22 22:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-11-23 0:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2008-11-24 16:11 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2008-11-24 20:52 ` Wes Felter
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