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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:19:37 -0500
From:      Linda Kateley <lkateley@kateley.com>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary
Message-ID:  <eaa6da68-a191-bfae-3589-31da1cb077e1@kateley.com>
In-Reply-To: <7914465331af14cde7fe43d4788cd336@ultra-secure.de>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1608221904270.82304@woozle.rinet.ru> <ba972848-140c-31a8-505e-2470ed750fc8@denninger.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1608221926550.82304@woozle.rinet.ru> <580a6ea8-9c84-3e99-5a7d-7b2434c84e67@denninger.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1608221835060.17619@wonkity.com> <CAOeNLurNwq3GdQocCSi3BFDx7vdKK-m-7O0t4pwH%2BD6fuG0Zdw@mail.gmail.com> <7914465331af14cde7fe43d4788cd336@ultra-secure.de>

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I have almost always used these instructions with 100% success

http://brycv.com/blog/2012/flashing-it-firmware-to-lsi-sas9211-8i/


On 8/23/16 6:09 AM, rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:
> 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 ;-)
>
>
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