From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Tue Aug 23 15:40:13 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 43D63BC38A9 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from oneyou.mcmli.com (oneyou.mcmli.com [IPv6:2607:f2f8:af30::100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "oneyou.mcmli.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 296BB1AAA for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (sentry.24cl.com [IPv6:2001:558:6017:94:4cfb:c574:24a0:7961]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "sentry.24cl.com", Issuer "Mike's Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by oneyou.mcmli.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3sJZQ41GQpz4D2q for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:40:12 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=mgm51.com; s=mgm51-02; t=1471966812; bh=AdM9cG0vtyxrz/a14EipkUOQuTNQNQSrTyKHT/DMByk=; h=Subject:To:From:Message-ID:Date; b=sqmuyq63E85ql2DNp6ZtzhON4XLeSiymWC69dc8cJ/2BxOR5QcED5r1+UUn0P+6Vl qVMhiYFVqfzBaDneLqYVGLdjrTyA/pZGTcapL56BZlaKjfx4DYdDzBOgsIZ+ReAHL7 nqHFJqikKGAqPrx4tsi+w3vdkZ5+25ldnpM1yl8GT+nAOJaCB6a0XNE1cawRFpdyuX ATatvtelhOMlDo2xrbgqy0+5E17C+Uzc0dWpr8t6Gs64LHk5SdL2EEk2XF1VX2t5SY C+m8/4MY+SUP9ldJX4rw9lFRjpRyDhuw1/7nqaoUS+pq71TGUqqAhw5Wopcxqzm3Y3 VJViCYj+lTOZg== Received: from [IPv6:fdcf:b715:2f4d:1:4478:a60a:b242:5f6e] (unknown [IPv6:fdcf:b715:2f4d:1:4478:a60a:b242:5f6e]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3sJZQ26qwkzGHHD for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:40:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <580a6ea8-9c84-3e99-5a7d-7b2434c84e67@denninger.net> <7914465331af14cde7fe43d4788cd336@ultra-secure.de> From: Mike Message-ID: <67cebd8d-e33d-56a9-7458-1cee700a7e15@mgm51.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:39:51 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7914465331af14cde7fe43d4788cd336@ultra-secure.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:40:13 -0000 On 8/23/2016 7:09 AM, rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote: > [snip] > > 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 ;-) DOS ain't so bad. I still have the 1991 full-backup for my DOS work PC. OS, word processor, c compiler, editor, plus all the apps' source I was developing. Backup file is 7MB. :)