MFI vs. Megasas

[Richard Lowe]

Javen Wu <javen.wu at sun.com> writes:

[snipping much of this, I imagine others will respond to it...]

> LSI provides Megasas driver together with MegaCLI configuration tool
> for Megasas HBA.
> Before ARC issue generic question, I'd like share my experiments with
> others since we've integrated
> several RAID HBA drivers, frequent questions issued by ARC are: Is
> there any configuration tool
> to configure your RAID HBA by your driver? If your driver support
> SPARC, how you configure RAID
> with your driver?(on SPARC, without BIOS configuration utility, how
> you configure RAID?)
>
> If the answers of the questions are both "NO" for MFI. I guess it's
> the time to consider the questions.
>
> PS:Megasas has MegaCLI configuration tool provided by LSI and can be
> download from LSI website.

But surely over in OpenSolaris land we have raidctl, which while
currently specific to mpt-driven cards (I think), seems clearly
intended to be generic.

I assume that the mega_sas actually intend to integrate a raidctl plugin,
rather than a separate CLI?

(though really, I should have saved that question until you came to
the ARC with your own case, I guess...)

-- Rich