ZFS on Hardware RAID

[Borja Marcos]

> On 23 Jan 2019, at 09:38, Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta at wp.pl> wrote:
> 
> W dniu 2019-01-23 o 08:15, Borja Marcos pisze:
>> By the way, some of these “pure raid” cards can be cross flashed to be plain HBAs but it’s a risky procedure. I bricked one or two.
> 
> any experience with these ones?
> 
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 9266-4i
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 84016E

Not really, the ones I have used were rebranded by Dell or IBM.

My advice is not to try to cross flash them from MegaRAID. Better try the mfi and mfip approach with the passthrough
tunable. I have some servers running like that for 10 years now and they are solid.






Borja.