Dell SAS controller / mpr?

[Ben RUBSON]

Sounds like 3008 has both IT & IR firmwares, as the 2008 has.

I had a look in the past and sounded difficult to flash a Dell
SAS adapter with a LSI firmware, well, not so easy.
I however did not try it myself, so others may share their experience :)

Ben

> On 07 Oct 2017, at 22:48, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:
> 
> A 3008 is an IT-mode card.  I think the 3108 is an IR-mode only card.
> I don't think dell does much to the firmwares, you can probably flash
> them with Broadcom ones if needed.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Lee Brown <leeb at ratnaling.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I want to purchase a dell R330 system with a "SAS 12Gbps HBA External
>> Controller", which I believe is this (pdf)
>> <http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-12Gbps-SAS-HBA.pdf>
>> card, based on the LSI SAS 3008 controller, which seems to be supported by
>> the mpr driver.
>> 
>> Would anybody be so kind as to verify this looks right before I purchase a
>> brick!
>> 
>> Many thanks -- lee