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[67.4.134.32]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id l19sm2095383iod.10.2016.08.23.14.19.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: linda@kateley.com Subject: Re: Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary References: <580a6ea8-9c84-3e99-5a7d-7b2434c84e67@denninger.net> <7914465331af14cde7fe43d4788cd336@ultra-secure.de> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Linda Kateley Organization: Kateley Company Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:19:37 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; 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; format=flowed 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 21:19:40 -0000 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 ;-) > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"