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If thats the mvsas driver, god help you. I had nothing but 
troubles with
it
for a good year or two or possibly more and it was never fixed or 
really
acknowledged, so I sold that card (a supermicro aoc-saslp-mv8) and 
picked
up a IBM m1015 (LSI 9211-8i a-like) and haven't looked back.

Basically it would reset a lot, and lock up. AND I believe it 
caused a lot
of silent corruption as well.

Hi,

So there is no support for the mvsas driver?

The controller is integrated in the motherboard. I could by a PCIe one
but, what's the deal them?

Thank you.

Iñigo.

I don't know that there isn't support, there has been commits to that 
driver
pretty regularly even when i was having problems. I just found there 
was no
support for my particular chipset. I hope you fare better than I did. 
Contact
linux-scsi as was suggested, maybe they can help.

I already contacted. No answer.

Maybe there is no mvsas developer active there now.

Joe> mvsas support under Linux is terrible.  I know you probably don't
Joe> want to hear this, but get another card.  Someone recommended an
Joe> LSI9211 card.  Past experience with those have been spotty.  They
Joe> are cheap, but I'd recommend a 9207-8i.  Costs a little more, but
Joe> generally works very well.

I bought one and it's been running rock solid in my home system for
months and months.  Got it off ebay for around $120 or so, forget the
exact price.  

Joe> Again, if you are using an mvsas based card, you should expect
Joe> problems and data corruption.  If you use the 9207, it should
Joe> work nicely.

I concur, LSI makes some solid gear.  Get the ones without the RAID
ROM too if you can, or flash it and just use it as a JBOD controller.

Mine is:

02:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)