Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755503AbYKVV7k (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752969AbYKVV73 (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:29 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:51713 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751687AbYKVV73 (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:29 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:59:28 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz To: "Moore, Eric" cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , Alan Piszcz Subject: RE: Question regarding SAS controllers. In-Reply-To: <660360F4F2570145BD872F298951B17A5CC40737@cosmail03.lsi.com> Message-ID: References: <660360F4F2570145BD872F298951B17A5CC40737@cosmail03.lsi.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 39 On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Moore, Eric wrote: > On Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:47 PM, Justin Piszcz 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? >> >> 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. >> > > mptsas > > http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/index.html > > Eric Moore > Eric, Thanks, I had checked this out earlier but the only non-raid SAS HBAs (those HBAs that do not end in -R) that are JBOD seem to be external only (e.g., do not contain any internal SAS ports?) Justin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/