One of the most popular SAS 6.0gbps/ SATA III controllers for enthusiasts is the IBM M1015. In its native form, it is a very capable host bus adapter (HBA) based on the LSI SAS2008 chip. With the low price on places such as ebay (see here for an ebay search for the M1015) and an enthusiastic community that has learned to unlock many features, it has quickly become a go-to choice for low-cost SATA III connectivity. This series of articles was written by Pieter Schaar perhaps best known as the one behind laptopvideo2go.com. He has been a regular contributor in the STH forums and has been detailing his learning in threads such as these. I do want to note that these modifications are not endorsed by this site, LSI, IBM or others and the information herein is purely for educational purposes. If you do encounter problems, you are solely responsible for those consequences.

StorCLI ist Nachfolger des MegaCLI und bietet Kommandozeilenwerkzeuge zur Verwaltung und Steuerung von MegaRAID Controllern. In diesem Artikel finden Sie eine Sammlung nützlicher Befehle zum Administrieren Ihres MegaRAID-Controllers.

Informationen zum MegaCLI zeigt der Artikel MegaRAID Controller mit MegaCLI verwalten. StorCLI unterstützt neben den neuen Kommandos zusätzlich auch die bisherige Syntax des MegaCLI.

This website aims to be the starting point for people wondering how to use and manage and harware RAID HBAs on GNU/Linux.
There are many vendor and model of hardware controllers. Some are fully supported on Linux, some are nearly unusable.

Having a kernel driver for the card is the first thing needed. However, once it's done the sysadmin needs to be able to manage, and of course to keep in touch with the disks status to be able to replace a failed disk as soon as possible.
This aspect is really important and we will try to tell you most of all we know about opensource and proprietary tools used to report card and disks status.

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