[ruckusman]

Just thought I'd put this out there as I'm searching for a potential Sata card for Octane, 5V PCI64 cards do exist, just waiting for one to appear locally.

Hope you don't consider this to be a thread hijack, just not sure where it best belongs.

I'm connecting a few dots here, this may also assist with other potential cards to try, especially LSI

Firstly this broadcom/LSI document mentions something call Fusion - binary compatibility across SCSI, Fibre channel and Sata
https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12353452.

Looks to be that they're possibly writing a single unified driver across those three interface types, they are all essentially SCSI/FC derived, so it seems wholly sensible.

The fuel hardware aggregator would seem to support this - I don't have an IP35 system and the O2 need the Dallas battery, but it was on 6.5.22 anyway
https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/...046/1.html

Lots of LSI card supported for the Fuel.

Where this gets interesting is that the QLA2324 works in O2 and Octane - thanks Jan-Jaap for that discovery - that's what got me thinking.
Is that IP35 driver for LSI fibre channel working for O2 and Octane.

The objective is to find, possibly an LSI SAS1064 based card, running Sata drives which accommodates the O2 and Octane 5V PCI slot.

I'm waiting for potential candidates to come available locally - one is the LSI Ser523 - I cannot for the life of me find the specific PCI ID for that card, I am hoping that it's SAS1064 based.

Another is just called the LSI Megaraid - they're on ebay, listed as Sata 150 cards.
There's plenty of others, question becomes, if they have SAS1064 chips, can they be flashed to IT mode HBA's.

Even Sata 150 for an O2 or an Octane would be both a performance and storage capacity boost.

There's lots of moving parts, is the IP35 LSI driver "Fusion" encompassing other LSI SCSI and SAS cards?

If anyone can run strings on the LSI firmware or binary driver that may yield some helpful clues, not unlike patching PCI ID's to get firmware and drivers to recognise compatible cards.

The PCI ID's may already be in there to begin with.