If you're going the LSI route, try to get a basic HBA with IT/IR firmware (or that you know for a fact can be crossflashed from iMR mode). Those usually work best. Avoid Dell PERC. IBM M1015 is usually fine (& cheap and available) but you'll want to crossflash it.
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TL;DR LSI sold the same chip with two completely different firmwares, PCI IDs, programming interfaces and drivers - one for full-blown hardware managed RAID (iMR) and one for a simple HBA (IT), optionally with basic RAID0/1 support (IR). You can switch with some effort.
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oh! yeah, I've already learned to avoid hardware RAID like Superfund sites.
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Here's my little horror story with a less-than-popular LSI card. These things work great once you get the right firmware on them, but getting there can be tricky depending on the model.https://marcan.st/2016/05/crossflashing-the-fujitsu-d2607/ …
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the... the card has a PowerPC CPU on it? (and MRAM? I didn't even know this is deployed in production) has anyone run Linux on it yet
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Some "server-grade" Ethernet cards have an embedded CPU like that too (I don't remember if it was Intel, Broadcom, or Mellanox)
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I mean, you can run Linux on a HDD controller, so... Yeah, why not. http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1 …
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yeah, I know that one, but a SAS controller seems more fun. you know why? you could hack it into a 24 Gbps SASternet card if you could control transceivers
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You know, "converged network" people usually try and do the opposite :P
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there's a russian proverb that describes this situation perfectly, but, fortunately, it's impossible to translate
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Of course, you'd then use this new capability to run DRBD over the network link, using the HBAs both for the local disks and the distributed RAID. Bonus points for implementing DRBD in the firmware itself.
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Turns out target mode on these controllers is already a thing and you don't even need to hack the firmware. Ha.https://github.com/exactassembly/meta-xa-stm …
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this gives me ideas.
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