From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Tue Aug 23 11:09:15 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B44EBC30FF for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from connect.ultra-secure.de (connect.ultra-secure.de [88.198.71.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5293D1820 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (Haraka outbound); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:09:07 +0200 Authentication-Results: connect.ultra-secure.de; auth=pass (login); spf=none smtp.mailfrom=ultra-secure.de Received-SPF: None (connect.ultra-secure.de: domain of ultra-secure.de does not designate 127.0.0.10 as permitted sender) receiver=connect.ultra-secure.de; identity=mailfrom; client-ip=127.0.0.10; helo=connect.ultra-secure.de; envelope-from= Received: from connect.ultra-secure.de (webmail [127.0.0.10]) by connect.ultra-secure.de (Haraka/2.6.2-toaster) with ESMTPSA id 1B7D392A-1737-4A48-9B42-790E11C2D9EB.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA verify=NO); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:09:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:09:00 +0200 From: rainer@ultra-secure.de To: Rich Cc: Warren Block , freebsd-fs Subject: Re: Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary In-Reply-To: References: <580a6ea8-9c84-3e99-5a7d-7b2434c84e67@denninger.net> Message-ID: <7914465331af14cde7fe43d4788cd336@ultra-secure.de> X-Sender: rainer@ultra-secure.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.0 X-Haraka-GeoIP: --, , NaNkm X-Haraka-GeoIP-Received: X-Haraka-p0f: os="undefined undefined" link_type="undefined" distance=undefined total_conn=undefined shared_ip=Y X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on spamassassin X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Haraka-Karma: score: 6, good: 34, bad: 0, connections: 34, history: 34, pass:all_good, relaying X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:09:15 -0000 Am 2016-08-23 11:22, schrieb Rich: > The reason they don't provide a source is that Megarec is one of those > tools that is theoretically only provided to OEMs or people who sign > contracts with LSI (AFAIK), but other than that, the other tools are > all > readily available from LSI's site. (SAS2IRCU also used to be similarly > hard > to find, but they've fortunately stopped that.) > > I've just got my own FreeDOS image with sas2flsh, megarec for DOS, and > megacli, and it works perfectly fine with those instructions. If it > makes > you itchy, cut your own FreeDOS image and lob those binaries from LSI's > site and $OTHER_SOURCE for megarec and then go to town. > > (You don't need megarec for crossflashing between IR/IT on an HBA, > though, > that's solely for when you're convincing an "actual" RAID card that > it's > just a dumb HBA.) It's relatively important to know that only the DOS-version, and only P14 (and below, probably) allows cross-flashing HBAs). The tutorials don't really say that, they kind-of assume that you will use the DOS-binaries anyway. In my IT-career, I've really only touched DOS a very small amount of time. Imagine my aversion at creating a DOS boot-disk ;-)