Low cost PCI-E unRAID - Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Driver/LBA questions for HW owners/users

The SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS SAS RAID
Controller seems to fit my needs and budget except for one glaring
omission on Supermicro's product page, and every other site that
blindly copies it.

Has anyone tested this hardware with a 48-bit LBA required drive (EG
one of the 3TB drives that still exposes 512k sectors)?


The other question, which is more on topic for linux-raid, is related
to current driver support.  I understand that the drivers have greatly
matured since the last time I saw the card discussed in the list.
With recent kernels have all the older issues been resolved?


Thank you,

Michael