CISS vs newer HPSA drivers

[LukeD]

Hi all, 2 questions re HBA on newer equipment

1. is there a HPSA firmware driver for FreeBSD/FREENAS ?

2 can we blacklist CISS firmware driver from loading using loader conf?

Seems majority of *nix based distros have stopped using CISS and gone forward with the HPSA item. http://cciss.sourceforge.net/

Server gear is GEN9, 16GB ECC REG, Xeon 6core v3 processor.
- LSI SAS2118i with P20 IT HBA working only with loader conf added: hw.pci.enable_msix=0 & hw.pci.enable_msi=1 (LSI driver on gen3 PCIe caused NMI event 6 hours after stress testing, additional loader conf restricts LSI driver to PCIe 2.2 interrupts standard from my reading)
- H240 SAS HBA works initially but detected link transfer speeds detected as 135MB/s (dmesg) and also crashed the system (actual disk write speeds at hard-drive sas 600Mb/s, not 135Mb/s)


History with FreeNAS is 2+ years using Gen6 HP servers, generic desktop gear and Gen7 AMD & Gen8 Intel Microservers so I am very familiar with the successes of using FreeNAS. Replication, recovery etc all tested in past so this Gen9 server getting hung up over HBA drivers in PCIe 3 tech seems a little odd to me. I only need the two questions to be reviewed so I can figure out what direction to take.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to find the answers to your questions?

 

[LukeD]

Were you able to find the answers to your questions?

No, Im stuck using the BSD supported LSI SAS2008 HBA without HDD activity lights on the Gen9 Server (not end of the world, it works). The FreeBSD CISS module just doesn't know what the H240 HBA is specifically but instead shows it as a "HP Smart Array TBA" (to be arranged??) install of HP Smart Array - freeBSD ciss module units supported list link here:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ciss&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+10.0-RELEASE whereas the Linux kernel ciss version has moved on from this small supported device list to include later model HP smart items http://cciss.sourceforge.net/ - HP servers are quite popular here so be good when FreeBSD supports the updated CISS related devices.