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Non-RAID HBA for ZFS

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Mowge

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Hello!

I'm hunting a new HBA for my upcoming storage server build!

I'd like something that works "out of the box". I've red that flashing cards to IT firmware does not work on all motherboards and I'd like to keep things simple and just get something that works straight away!

Suggestions?
 
Mowge said:
Hello!

I'm hunting a new HBA for my upcoming storage server build!

I'd like something that works "out of the box". I've red that flashing cards to IT firmware does not work on all motherboards and I'd like to keep things simple and just get something that works straight away!

Suggestions?
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LSI 9211-8i should be your target then. You need to keep in mind that LSI ships these cards with IR firmware so you will probably have to flash anyway and it's not difficult. If you really want to buy something plug and play with IT firmware, I've got a Dell H310 with LSI IT firmware on it that I am not using right now, send me a PM with an offer.
 
mini-me01 said:
LSI 9211-8i should be your target then. You need to keep in mind that LSI ships these cards with IR firmware so you will probably have to flash anyway and it's not difficult. If you really want to buy something plug and play with IT firmware, I've got a Dell H310 with LSI IT firmware on it that I am not using right now, send me a PM with an offer.
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I was looking at the 9211. It's not the process itself I'm afraid of. Buth rather if I have a motherboard that will work with the flash utility.

I'm in sweden so shipping might be a problem.

I've had my eyes on the LSI 9207, would it be a good choice?
 
Mowge said:
I was looking at the 9211. It's not the process itself I'm afraid of. Buth rather if I have a motherboard that will work with the flash utility.

I'm in sweden so shipping might be a problem.

I've had my eyes on the LSI 9207, would it be a good choice?
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9207 is a newer gen card and works well with Solaris based systems. If I have to get a new LSI card, I'd get 9207.

Flashing firmware works on both legacy and EFI based boards.
 
dilidolo said:
9207 is a newer gen card and works well with Solaris based systems. If I have to get a new LSI card, I'd get 9207.

Flashing firmware works on both legacy and EFI based boards.
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I see. Could you point me to an up to date guide on how to flash? The ones I've been looking at claims that you need a non-UEFI motherboard.
 
down load the sas2flash utility for solaris, download the windows FW/bios package.

unzip both

/path/to/sas2flash -biosall /path/to/mptbios.rom
/path/to/sas2flash -fwall /path/to/firmware.bin

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to clarify, the solaris, bsd, etc packages only contain the sas2flash utility. why lsi didn't see fit to include the firmware and bios images in those packages is beyond me but they only include those files in the windows package so you have to download both.
 
dell RAID and Non-RAID packages if the crossflash to LSI is giving you issues.
dell firmwares

you won't be needing that info then. :)
 
Flashing works perfectly fine from EFI, Linux, Windows, Solaris, etc. It's only the LSI crossflash on Dell cards that seems to be a problem with EFI.
 
I found flashing my cards using uefi shell so much simpler, no pain of making a dos boot disk or anything needed.
 
The IBM M1015 costs ca $80 on Ebay and you can also flash it to IT. It is a rebranded LSI 9211(?). It works great for Solaris
 
Anything tricky about flashing the H310 to IT mode? Does it need to be in a Dell to flash it to LSI? Any gotchas?
 
another poster posted the following link previously on the forum, I think it is good info so repost here. credit to the original poster.

From 32 to 2 ports: Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS & Linux MD RAID

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10
 
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