SAS expanders

I'm starting a thread to talk about some technical details of SAS expanders, I was starting to discuss this on a SATA port multiplier thread, and while there was proper contect when I entered the thread, really this should be it's own thread. Port multipliers appear not to work any more under FreeBSD, and rather than belabor that issue, I think a fresh discussion of what hardware we should be using is called for.

So I have a handful of brand new LSI 9211-8i's on the way, and I was reading the...

SAS expanders