= LSI Fusion MPT SAS =

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= 1. Card information =

The FusionMPT SAS is a low-end card from LSI.
[[BR]]It only supports RAID0 and RAID1 an can usually be found in many 1U rackmount servers which have only two disks drives.
[[BR]]Even it's not full of features theses card appear to work fine and are supported by an '''opensource Linux driver'''.
[[BR]] An '''opensource monitoring software''' exists, however there is '''no known management tool''', even proprietary.

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= 2. Linux kernel drivers =

|| Driver || Supported cards ||
|| mptsas || LSI FusionMPT SAS cards ||
|| mptctl || Driver to handle monitoring IOCTLs ||

There are many more mpt* drivers in Linux kernel.
[[BR]]Somes seems to be required dependencies. Others looks like being real driver but we haven't used them yet.

''mptsas'' has been part of the mainstream Linux kernel for a while and should be '''available''' in all '''current Linux distributions'''.

Some ''lspci -nn' output examples:

  * 02:08.0 SCSI storage controller ![0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS ![1000:0054] (rev 01)
  * 07:00.0 SCSI storage controller ![0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS ![1000:0058] (rev 08)

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= 3. Management and reporting tools =

There are '''no management tool'''. LSI doesn't provide any proprietary utility for FusionMPT's cards.
[[BR]]However an '''opensource reporting tool''' named ''mpt-status'' has been developped.