Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary

[Linda Kateley]

I have almost always used these instructions with 100% success

http://brycv.com/blog/2012/flashing-it-firmware-to-lsi-sas9211-8i/


On 8/23/16 6:09 AM, rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote:
> Am 2016-08-23 11:22, schrieb Rich:
>> The reason they don't provide a source is that Megarec is one of those
>> tools that is theoretically only provided to OEMs or people who sign
>> contracts with LSI (AFAIK), but other than that, the other tools are all
>> readily available from LSI's site. (SAS2IRCU also used to be 
>> similarly hard
>> to find, but they've fortunately stopped that.)
>>
>> I've just got my own FreeDOS image with sas2flsh, megarec for DOS, and
>> megacli, and it works perfectly fine with those instructions. If it 
>> makes
>> you itchy, cut your own FreeDOS image and lob those binaries from LSI's
>> site and $OTHER_SOURCE for megarec and then go to town.
>>
>> (You don't need megarec for crossflashing between IR/IT on an HBA, 
>> though,
>> that's solely for when you're convincing an "actual" RAID card that it's
>> just a dumb HBA.)
>
>
> It's relatively important to know that only the DOS-version, and only 
> P14 (and below, probably) allows cross-flashing HBAs).
>
> The tutorials don't really say that, they kind-of assume that you will 
> use the DOS-binaries anyway.
>
> In my IT-career, I've really only touched DOS a very small amount of 
> time. Imagine my aversion at creating a DOS boot-disk ;-)
>
>
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