There are many different adapters and drivers, if you would have to choose, what would be the most popular SCSI/SAS controller model to support? What server class hardware is the most popular in your area, the most available and reasonably priced? If we would add support for one or two controllers, which ones would they be?
At the very least, support the megaraid, megaraid_sas drivers and 3ware drivers.
They will cover most SCSI/SAS RAID controllers available. For example, almost all Dell PERC SCSI controllers use the megaraid drivers, and all the Dell PERC SAS (eg. 6/6i) controllers use the megaraid_sas drivers, and HP use LSI controllers which also use the megaraid drivers. The next most common one I know of and have seen is the 3ware cards, which are quite often used in custom, home-made or industrial chassis. These are very mature, stable drivers and should pose no problems.
Support for Intel SATA for CDROM installs would be helpful. Currently if you boot the ISO image on an x86 system with Intel chipset/SATA and SATA DVD drive, it gives a ‘FATAL ERROR: no CD-ROM found’, although it does show ‘Found hard drive as SATA 0’ so its loading the controller, but currently seems to only support IDE CDROM drives. Motherboards don’t come with IDE controllers anymore!
Loading drivers
Looking for harddrives…
Found harddrive as SATA 0
FATAL ERROR: no CD-ROM found
Press ENTER to reboot
We added some SCSI drivers in v5beta2, can somebody please test with a demo key or 24h trial?
3w-9xxx
arcmsr
megaraid
Please include driver for SCSI adapter ‘Adaptec aic7899’ (Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers)
I have a lot of this servers.
I PROMISE to test this release and send the FULL test report