LSI 9260: is there a way to configure it JBOD like mps?

[Rich]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Steven Hartland wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitry Morozovsky" <marck at rinet.ru>
>>
>> > I'm currently in process of making new backup server, based on LSI 9260
>> > controller.  I'm planning to use ZFS over disks, hence the most natural way
>> > seems to configure mfi to JBOD mode - but I can't find easy way to reach
>> > this, neither in BIOS utilities nor via MegaCli
>> >
>> > Any hints?
>>
>> I don't remember the model number, but you may find there's an
>> IT mode FW which will make it report under mps and not mfi.
>>
>> If that's one of the versions which has no IT mode FW then you
>> can try configuring JBOD under mfi with something like:-
>>
>> MegaCli -AdpSetProp -EnableJBOD -1 -aALL
>
> I did. No luck :(
>
> Well, it seems I'll have to create 12 RAOI0 volumes :-/

924x will do JBOD, 926x will not.

One of those annoying little caveats for no clear reason.

But yes, I'd imagine you can destructively reflash it from DOS into a
9211-8i if it's the 2008 chipset. [If it's 2108/2208, that's a
different FW but same concept.]

- Rich