IBM M1015 controller (LSI 92xx-8i)

**neocronomican** · 03-02-2011, 12:46 AM

what expander that support with this M1015 card? HP Sas Expander?

**tiro_uspsss** · 03-02-2011, 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by neocronomican

what expander that support with this M1015 card? HP Sas Expander?

according to the HP SAS expander thread @ [H], LSI 9240, 9260 arent compatible

.. only 9211 iirc

**mattkosem** · 03-03-2011, 09:47 PM

Here's winsat.

**Anvil** · 03-04-2011, 01:38 AM

Nice performance.

Cant think of any alternatives at this price level.

**stuffme** · 03-04-2011, 02:21 AM

Hello!

Couple of questions:

1. If I have understood it correctly, SAS9220-8i AKA IBM ServeRAID M1015 LSI 9220-8i PCI-E SAS RAID 46M0831 is rebadged LSI 9240-8i raid controller without raid5 support?

2. Is there any easy(read: cheap) way to get raid5 support for sas9220-8i card? Like it says in this link "Field upgradeability to RAID-5, -50 with ServeRAID M1000series Advance Feature Key" and "By connecting the optional ServeRAID M1000series Advanced Feature Key to the controller, users will be able to achieveRAID-5, -50 data protection and sup-port for self-encrypting drives". What does this feature key actually means?

3. My motherboard doesn't have sata 6Gb ports so I was thinking, will vertex 3 saturate sas9220-8i card?

**tiro_uspsss** · 03-04-2011, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by stuffme

Hello!

Couple of questions:

1. If I have understood it correctly, SAS9220-8i AKA IBM ServeRAID M1015 LSI 9220-8i PCI-E SAS RAID 46M0831 is rebadged LSI 9240-8i raid controller without raid5 support?

2. Is there any easy(read: cheap) way to get raid5 support for sas9220-8i card? Like it says in this link "Field upgradeability to RAID-5, -50 with ServeRAID M1000series Advance Feature Key" and "By connecting the optional ServeRAID M1000series Advanced Feature Key to the controller, users will be able to achieveRAID-5, -50 data protection and sup-port for self-encrypting drives". What does this feature key actually means?

3. My motherboard doesn't have sata 6Gb ports so I was thinking, will vertex 3 saturate sas9220-8i card?

1. correct
2. its a very tiny pcb/jumper thing - it gets placed over 2 pins on the actual card & voila! RAID5!
3. dont know sorry.. doubt it..

**stuffme** · 03-04-2011, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss

1. correct
2. its a very tiny pcb/jumper thing - it gets placed over 2 pins on the actual card & voila! RAID5!
3. dont know sorry.. doubt it..

Thank you for your quick reply.

But that raised couple of more questions.

1. So actually you can have a dirt cheap raid5 card just by placing a simple jumper, or it's a some special jumper? Because I don't understand why people here are spending another 130$ for something you can do it yourself?

2. Merely I was thinking on getting one of these cards for 2 vertex 3 raid0 setup, but if I could it get with raid5 also, it raised a question. Can the card handle 2 vertex 3 raid0 and 4 samsung F3 equivalent raid5 setup without saturating?

**robbicfc** · 03-04-2011, 04:08 AM

Its a special jumper, costs $120 or so

Ref the throughput:
2 * Vertex 3 = max 1100MB/s
4 * Samsung F3s = (4 * 150MB/s optimistic) = 600MB/s?
Its possible you may saturate the card but if you are going RAID 5 then really you should be looking at the 9260 or better still the 9265 which has a big improvement in RAID 5 according to docs released by LSI.

**mattkosem** · 03-04-2011, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by stuffme

2. Merely I was thinking on getting one of these cards for 2 vertex 3 raid0 setup, but if I could it get with raid5 also, it raised a question. Can the card handle 2 vertex 3 raid0 and 4 samsung F3 equivalent raid5 setup without saturating?

I don't think a setup like that will be bottlenecked by this card. If it were my rig though, id run the ssds on it and run the spinpoints on the onboard controller. Then you'll be guaranteed to get max perf in everything.

--Matt

**F@32** · 03-04-2011, 01:26 PM

EDIT: New driver 4.33 (unsigned) and firmware (20.10.1-0029 (APP-2.120.24-1181)) are available http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/...-8i/index.html

Code:

CHANGELOG Driver:
*******************************************

LSI Corp. MegaRAID Windows Drivers

*******************************************


Release Date: 03/04/11
======================

Supported Controllers
==================

MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i
MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i
MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i
MegaRAID SAS 9260DE-8i
MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e
MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e
MegaRAID SAS 9280DE-8e
MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e
MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e
MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i
MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP
MegaRAID SAS 8704EM2
MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP
MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 
MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2
MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP



Component:
==========
SAS MegaRAID Drivers for Windows
Release Date: 03/04/11


Version Numbers:	
================			
Current Version		4.33
Previous Version	4.32


Contents:
=========
This package contains drivers for the following Windows versions:
Windows 2003 x86 
Windows 2003 x64
Windows Vista x86 
Windows Vista x64  
Windows 2008 x86 
Windows 2008 x64
Windows 2008R2 X64
Windows 7 x86
Windows 7 x64
Windows XP x86 
Windows XP x64 

Install the driver from the appropriate folder for your Windows version.


Bug Fixes/Enhancements:  
=======================
LSIP200123019 (DFCT) iMR performance degraded with multiple VD/ Sys PD. 
LSIP200122845 (DFCT) OCR support for 1078 
LSIP200122850 (DFCT) Fix order of order due to IO coalescing. 
LSIP200122846 (DFCT) set issgl64 for mfiIoctlDcdbpath 



Known Restrictions: 
===================

1.	NONE

Known Bugs: 
===========

1.	NONE


Installation Instructions:
==========================
Please refer to the MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation Guide.

Code:

CHANGELOG firmware:
************************************

LSI Corp. MegaRAID Firmware Release 

************************************

Release date: 03/04/11

====================== 
Supported Controllers:
======================


MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i
MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i


Component:
=========
SAS MegaRAID Firmware Release for MegaRAID Controllers
Release date: 03/04/11


Version Numbers:	
===============

Current Firmware Package:    20.10.1-0029	
Current Package Details:     APP-2.120.24-1181_BB-2.02.00.00-0001_BIOS-4.21.00_4.11.05.00_0x05000000_WEBBIOS-4.0-44-e_32-Rel_PCLI-03.02-01500008_NVDATA-3.09.03-0011_2011_02_12

			     
Previous Firmware Package:    20.10.1-0020
Previous Package Details:     APP-2.120.14-1094_BB-2.02.00.00-0001_BIOS-4.20.00_4.11.05.00_0x0418A000_WEBBIOS-4.0-43-e_31-Rel_PCLI-03.02-01500008_NVDATA-3.09.03-0010_2010_12_06

			      

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
===========================
Firmware:
=========
LSIP200141662 (CO) (auto4comp FW_SAS_LSI) Deliver HII in Q1 2011 Liberator maintenance 
LSIP200142547 (DFCT) Provide mechanism to bypass settings delayPOST and envDelaySOD 
LSIP200143179 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200142502) Return status code 'Success' to certain obsolete SCSI commands 
LSIP200139759 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200121783) With multipath setting, potential data integrity issue while IOs across 2 enclosures 
LSIP200143213 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200136622) potential I/O miscompares when issue OCR. 
LSIP200121969 (DFCT) FW 10M09 cause system (sles11sp1/rhel6) reset while lspci -vvxxx is used 
LSIP200071988 (DFCT) Inconsistent drive state after drives are changed to different slots. 
LSIP200139722 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200095564) Controller hit montask during BGI 
LSIP200139711 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200096531) fw hit montask at pd.c when rebuilding from raid 6 
LSIP200139713 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200085772) Clear configured with SSC degraded causing FW went to mon_tsk() 
LSIP200139762 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200125260) Configured PDs become not supported PDs, LDs dropping offline. 
LSIP200104775 (DFCT) Controller reports "phy is bad" for single port with any SATA device 
LSIP200139764 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200095287) HSP commissioned alarm beep goes away after reboot 
LSIP200139742 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200086083) sscd show 0 byte in debugger and MSM 
LSIP200139756 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200099072) ekms bios is not enable 
LSIP200139728 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200089519) FW aborts the recovery resulting SES not responding 
LSIP200139758 (DFCT) (CL LSIP200095566) Drive comes up as unconfigured bad while running power cycle and error injection script 
LSIP200123091 (DFCT) DateOfFirstuse is Incorrectly Causing BBU Deep Discharge Requirement 


WebBIOS:
========
LSIP200123117 (DFCT) Using the "+" character caused uEFI WebBIOS to replace the + with a space and fail. 


BIOS:
========
LSIP200134837 (DFCT) FW revision is not displayed in the Bios' controller list 
LSIP200141091 (DFCT) Remove JBOD message form BIOS POST 


Installation:
=============
Use MegaCLI to flash the SAS controllers.  MegaCLI can be downloaded from the support and download
section of www.lsi.com.

Command syntax:  MegaCli -adpfwflash -f imr_fw.rom -a0

Originally Posted by mattkosem

NCQ is on. Yes, it's pretty close. SB850 is better on 4Ks than this, but 512k reads are like 300 MB/sec faster and seq is up about 70MB/sec. I broke the stripe, partitioned and formatted the drives, trimmed them, and rebuilt the stripe. It improved a small amount.

--Matt

What sickening is that 2R0 X18-M Gen 1 on PCH produce this. Very low latency and excellent write speeds. I will soon have SATA 6G pair, will be interesting.

**DragoonXX** · 03-07-2011, 01:27 PM

I'm intrigued by these, unfortunately, between a low budget, and the only ones I can find that are cheap to ship is a pair of two at (surprisingly) something like 100 bucks+20 shipping (for a pair!) they'll have to get shelved for a while

**tived** · 03-07-2011, 04:22 PM

updated my M1015 yesterday with the latest FW, MSM and drivers without any issues. It didn't affect the array (Virtual drive) I had on. Not sure yet if there is any improvements.
That was on my EVGA SR-2
Henrik

**mattkosem** · 03-07-2011, 05:30 PM

I see no improvement on the latest firmware and drivers either.

--Matt

**mrkram** · 03-09-2011, 11:13 AM

just got mine in today - will let you know how it works - gonna try to implement a RAID 1 on Ubuntu now

update: realized mine wasnt including mini SAS to SATA cable - will update once i get the cable in

**tived** · 03-09-2011, 04:01 PM

there are good long cables on eBay for $15 i bought 4 and they have been fine.

**mrkram** · 03-09-2011, 04:47 PM

dang, just spent 30 on amazon - but one day shipping

**Agrophel** · 03-13-2011, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss

according to the HP SAS expander thread @ [H], LSI 9240, 9260 arent compatible

.. only 9211 iirc

HP SAS Expander is working, got my card few days ago. Not Test with Dual Linking yet

**tived** · 03-14-2011, 05:36 AM

Any1 got any links to cheap RAID-5 keys for the M1015?

please

**F@32** · 03-14-2011, 06:08 AM

$140-150 is as cheap as they come...

**tiro_uspsss** · 03-14-2011, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by Agrophel

HP SAS Expander is working, got my card few days ago. Not Test with Dual Linking yet

just double checking.. so ur M1015 is working with this:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1484614

?

if so, which firmware & driver etc.. which mobo?

thank u muchly!

**tiro_uspsss** · 03-15-2011, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by Agrophel

HP SAS Expander is working, got my card few days ago. Not Test with Dual Linking yet

lulz...
that [H] page I linked you.. the first post has been screwed.. here is the post I wanted you to look @:

http://forums.servethehome.com/showt...xpander-Thread

(post#1)

this is the first time I have seen this post - I noticed it has been updated: this card is compatible

so now I'm really confused. in the [H] thread, ppl have tested with LSI 9240/9260 & it *hasnt* worked.. but this M1015 it does, yet its a rebranded LSI 9240..

I have a (probably dumb) question for everyone:

is this card a REAL HARDWARE RAID5 card?

or just a driver/firmware RAID5 card?

**BenT** · 03-15-2011, 09:42 PM

F@32,

Are you using the M1015 on your P67 Extreme4? I'm curious because I found out the hard way that the board doesn't like my Asus P8P67 Pro at all and I need a replacement board to play with

.

Thanks!

**EniGmA1987** · 03-16-2011, 12:31 AM

All P8P67s dont have any PCI-E 8x slots, thus this card will not work with them. It requires an 8x slot.

**tiro_uspsss** · 03-16-2011, 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by EniGmA1987

All P8P67s dont have any PCI-E 8x slots, thus this card will not work with them. It requires an 8x slot.

if there is x8 electrically but the slot physical size is x16, why should that matter?

heck.. there are soooooooooooo many ppl who do just that

**mattkosem** · 03-16-2011, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss

if there is x8 electrically but the slot physical size is x16, why should that matter?

heck.. there are soooooooooooo many ppl who do just that

Seriously. I've got mine in a standard x16 slot. If it fits, it works (provided there are no bios or design issues preventing it from working).

--Matt

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