Re: Are SATA port multipliers supported in -CURRENT?

Ståle Kristoffersen wrote:
> On 2007-07-25 at 14:43, Scott Long wrote:
>> Steven Schlansker wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I am considering buying a SiI 3132 SATA card along with a 5-1 port
>>> multiplier.  I'm trying to see if FreeBSD supports such a configuration,
>>> but the only reference found to port multipliers and FreeBSD was some
>>> poor, lonely man asking about a "porn multiplier" crashing his system on
>>> startup. :-p
>>> The thread trailed off quickly, without resolution.
>>>
>>> So my question is:  Are port multipliers supported in CURRENT?  Are
>>> there any caveats?  I don't see anything in UPDATING, the handbook, or
>>> our friend Google.  I want to check that it is supported before I drop
>>> $80 on it :)  Thanks a bunch!
>>> Steven
>> They are only supported at the moment by controllers that are
>> intelligent enough to hide the details of how they work from the OS.
>> The SiI family probably doesn't fall into this category.  I'm working
>> on this as part of a larger SATA/SAS/SCSI/FC overhaul, but it'll be
>> a few months before there are any results.
> 
> Whats the status of freebsd's port multiplier support?
> I'm looking into buying a Norco DS-1220,
> http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=12&modelno=ds1220
> (but without the controller)
> Will it work, and if yes what controllers would it work with?
> 

It might work with an LSI SAS controller.  I still don't have support 
written for generic SAS/SATA controllers.

Scott