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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Mike wrote:

> >> LSI SAS 2008 Based HBA, there are dozens of OEM available for Budget Prices
> > 
> > With the IT firmware.
> 
> What's the significance of "IT firmware"?

ability to export raw disk device withou unnatural intelligence of a controller 
to mangle with data :)

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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