It arrived a week after buying it from Ebay
Had a wee shuffle around on the ASUS P8Z77 WS Mobo to give the LSI9202 a PCIe 16x slot with other slot free, to also give it 16x lanes from PLX switch
The LSI 9261 and M1015 (IR) are in the other slots so they both get PCIe 8x electrically
Started up machine, I see a heart beat so, that was good.
Machine booted up as normal, I boot in UEFI mode so see very little happening at boot time and it's fast even with 3x LSI controllers
Quickly open MSM and device manager.
First thing I noticed, the device shows in MSM as a 'SAS Quad Port 6G', which is what it is of course it does not mention 2x SAS2008 controllers
Windows 8 shows it as a single SAS2008 Falcon
I may need to boot to DOS and see whats going on under the hood
If the above is true with a single device then, the driver must surely separate the SAS requests to each SAS2008
I can't do much drive testing as I have no cables yet.
It is the triple Heatsink version, heatsinks are numbered with LSI I presume part numbers
Had a wee shuffle around on the ASUS P8Z77 WS Mobo to give the LSI9202 a PCIe 16x slot with other slot free, to also give it 16x lanes from PLX switch
The LSI 9261 and M1015 (IR) are in the other slots so they both get PCIe 8x electrically
Started up machine, I see a heart beat so, that was good.
Machine booted up as normal, I boot in UEFI mode so see very little happening at boot time and it's fast even with 3x LSI controllers
Quickly open MSM and device manager.
First thing I noticed, the device shows in MSM as a 'SAS Quad Port 6G', which is what it is of course it does not mention 2x SAS2008 controllers
Windows 8 shows it as a single SAS2008 Falcon
I may need to boot to DOS and see whats going on under the hood
If the above is true with a single device then, the driver must surely separate the SAS requests to each SAS2008
I can't do much drive testing as I have no cables yet.
It is the triple Heatsink version, heatsinks are numbered with LSI I presume part numbers