![]() In the process of upgrading my storage server, I wanted to upgrade the firmware on my recently acquired LSI SAS9211-8i SAS/SATA 6Gb/s PCI Express card to the latest IT version rather than the IR version it ships with. The SAS 9211-8i utilizes the embedded CPU in the LSI SAS2008 controller to perform integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E and 10 operations for reliable data protection with high-availability. The result is an ultra-thin, low-overhead device driver communicating over the x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface. It works fine at OS X 10.9.x with Perc 5. This card provides RAID mode only, but you can just make RAIDs consisting of single drives, so you'll able to achieve your goal. Hi - don't know if this thread is still active, but if so, firstly, hello and much kudos to you, dukzcry. I'm in a similar situation to brickbat - trying to build an 8-bay media rig to run Mavericks and ZFS - bought a RR2720SGL which initially runs fine and all disks pass through happily enough, but it seems to only work properly under Windoze - keeps spitting out disks under load if used in OSX, UnRAID etc. I would happily go down the better-known (more expensive) HBA route, if I could figure out which of the current LSI (or rebranded) cards would be supported by the AppleLSIFusionMPT kext. I know this is off-topic for this thread, being a non-RAID question, but was hoping you or someone else may have a recommendation as to a potential card for this use-case, as I have been searching for hours and getting not very far. Seems info relating to Mavericks is a bit thin, Any help or pointers appreciated. Regards Richard. I would happily go down the better-known (more expensive) HBA route, if I could figure out which of the current LSI (or rebranded) cards would be supported by the AppleLSIFusionMPT kext. I know this is off-topic for this thread, being a non-RAID question, but was hoping you or someone else may have a recommendation as to a potential card for this use-case, as I have been searching for hours and getting not very far. Seems info relating to Mavericks is a bit thin I haven't seen anything special to the Mavericks support too. Maybe worth to ask here? Lsi Logic DriversHi Richard, How do you mean? Dell 1815 mfp drivers for mac. There is one disabled optimization for a heavy ZFS usage in the code of my kext, but it haven't been tested yet. If you're interesting, i may give you a build where it's enabled. Hi, thanks for the reply. As I am still at the experimental stage, I'd be happy to help try anything out, no risk to my 'production' deployment;-) To be clearer tho on my experience, I am currently using the RR2720 with whatever native drivers there are in Mavericks. Broadcom ush with swipe sensor drivers for macbook pro. I had a look through the default kexts, but couldn't see which one it was using. I know that strictly speaking it's not supported, but the eSATA version is, and they are basically the same card afaik. 1068eBut the card seems to only work under Winbloze, and fails under OSX or Linux even without ZFS. I kick off a large copy from two disks on the controller, and it inevitably fails one of the disks, even though they otherwise seem ok.
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