Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives

> On 18. Jun 2022, at 15:10, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
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> On 06/18/2022 3:54 am, Michael Gmelin wrote:
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> Subvendor is Fujitsu Siemens - so I guess this is integrated into a system by them.
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> Seems like flashing the 2108 to an IT firmware isn't an option (based on what I found online). You could check if there are firmware updates available though. How did you configure the drives in the megaraid utility (ctrl-h after boot)? Did you create a RAID-0 for each disk? And what capacity is shown in there?
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> Based on [0], 2108 based controllers don't support 4kn. IT mode would help (true passthrough), but as written above, I don't think it's an option for this model.
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> -m
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> [0] https://bitdeals.tech/blogs/news/4kn-lsi-compatibility-list
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> as I said earlier in the thread, I've bought 2 of these:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/194910024856
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> which if I'm reading that chart right should work with the 4Kn drives. 
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That certainly sounds promising.

Best
Michael
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