Re: mfi driver performance

Might be worth testing anyway, as that would help prove controller or driver issue.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Achim Patzner" <ap@bnc.net>
To: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: mfi driver performance

Am 10.09.2012 um 14:57 schrieb Steven Hartland:

> How are you intending to use the controller?

As a 濯aunch-and-forget鐠RAID 1+0 sub-system using UFS (which reminds me to complain about sysinstall on volumes > 2 TB later).

> If you're looking to put a load of disk in for say ZFS have you tried flashing to a none RAID firmware so it uses mps instead of 
> mfi?

That would be wasting a perfectly good brain; the on-board SAS controller would be sufficient for that.

Achim

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