I needed another inexpensive low profile HBA with 2 external SFF-8088 ports so I went and and picked up the cheapest one I could find for like $15 shipped. Based on the price alone I totally expected it to be just another LSI SAS2008 clone. But it happened to be Oracle branded and based on PMC PM 8001 chip. I had some experience with Adaptec and HP branded PMC based RAID controllers but never a PMC HBA.
I installed and it works
My question is whether I should keep it or just replace with something more common?
For starters I would like to keep current with firmware updates and in this case I do not even know where to get the updates from. Or what the proper tools to use to flash and configure the card. HP and Adaptec RAID utilities do not seem to recognize this controller. Probably because it uses generic PMC pm80xx driver.
On the positive side I noticed that it seems to run cooler than the LSI cards I have.
I installed and it works
Code:
lspci -Dnnvvd ::0107
0000:01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: PMC-Sierra Inc. Device [11f8:8001] (rev 05)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f7b30000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 2: Memory at f7b20000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 4: Memory at f7b10000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 5: Memory at f7b00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at f7a00000 [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <1us, L1 <8us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- SlotPowerLimit 0.000W
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us
ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported
DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled
LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
Capabilities: [ac] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=16 Masked-
Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00002000
PBA: BAR=0 offset=00004000
Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr+ BadTLP- BadDLLP+ Rollover- Timeout+ NonFatalErr-
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Kernel driver in use: pm80xx
Kernel modules: pm80xxFor starters I would like to keep current with firmware updates and in this case I do not even know where to get the updates from. Or what the proper tools to use to flash and configure the card. HP and Adaptec RAID utilities do not seem to recognize this controller. Probably because it uses generic PMC pm80xx driver.
On the positive side I noticed that it seems to run cooler than the LSI cards I have.
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