[OmniOS-discuss] PCI-e x8 only running x4

[Dominik Hassler]

On 01/24/2017 02:22 AM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>
>> On Jan 23, 2017, at 8:17 PM, Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> wrote:
>>
>> I am aware of that and an upgrade to a 2x08 is on the todo list.
>
> Highly recommend x == 0 or 2, or also consider a 3008.  All of these are mpt_sas boards.  x == 1 or 3 are mr_sas boards, which have (eww) HW-RAID on them.
>

are you sure? i have a 2308 flashed to IT firmware and the attached 
driver is mpt_sas not mr_sas


# ./sas2ircu LIST
LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18)
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.


          Adapter      Vendor  Device                       SubSys  SubSys
  Index    Type          ID      ID    Pci Address          Ven ID  Dev ID
  -----  ------------  ------  ------  -----------------    ------  ------
    0     SAS2308_1     1000h    86h   00h:02h:00h:00h      15d9h   0691h
SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.

# dmesg |grep sas
Jan 20 01:24:06 jupiter scsi: [ID 583861 kern.info] mpt_sas5 at 
mpt_sas0: scsi-iport v0
Jan 20 01:24:06 jupiter genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] mpt_sas5 is 
/pci at 0,0/pci8086,c05 at 1,1/pci15d9,691 at 0/iport at v0
Jan 20 01:24:06 jupiter genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
/pci at 0,0/pci8086,c05 at 1,1/pci15d9,691 at 0/iport at v0 (mpt_sas5) online


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