Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:44:43 +0100 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Peter Lai <cowbert@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and "internal" mfi RAID cards, the eternal question Message-ID: <18831097-9113-4059-BAEB-71185849BD90@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=RcYcMmnAdb8Rq%2BZdDp4kcU%2B1nmNKb22uzakMp@mail.gmail.com> References: <522B2387-1BE2-4AF7-B250-B1272D301C59@sarenet.es> <AANLkTi=RcYcMmnAdb8Rq%2BZdDp4kcU%2B1nmNKb22uzakMp@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Peter Lai wrote: > Is there a reason you are ordering your Dells with H700 instead of > H200; do you really want the battery backed cache anyway? > = http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/topics= /en/us/raid_controller?c=3Dus&l=3Den&cs=3D555 > suggests the H200 has jbod mode... Indeed, it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Or am I wrong? > FWIW, in our case, we didn't need 16 ports and were ok with 3gb > channels so we actually just settled with the dumb mpt controller. >> Maybe there would be a way to just tell the card firmware to shut up = and let it work like a simple and well behaved SAS card? >=20 > One could wish :) Well, the ugly patch to mfi_cam lets me access the disks. Of course it = doesn't seen to be a clean solution. Borja.
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