From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 19 18:00:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382B2BBB for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x236.google.com (mail-la0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE560A4B for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f54.google.com with SMTP id gw10so1503502lab.13 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:00:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=u781O+GnNG6xrtxldW2sGmz8LSO5bsU8O3ZlIHmuk4k=; b=gdoKyiU6MgnZeBIlHhuI4O25Pae7dVpGSU3V77Fw785gBJ9nYUEaIupi1cRWTTvyDM fS2NmaQ2MROW6QGvJOxdcA8bA4C4/t8+eoYwmA+ZPjl5vanL1YX4Vj9Khpe8qlOGD3g4 hJH2HQUjda5G8rpbJISCSZZmkexcsy2/W2cblF20PiahkEijx+3kz2z6VmILtOZUUBAB ErOvlJ/SHyTVdWb20tOUJrFdnoa/9/XhysUHf9BEFYQLNKGbyHulpOsbUUuTIcuCKRQp fHrhDFIrzKF80fmg+UsH/SSN9ASrd2BJNY9m93qExamqJMgIAeHTTKARIW6vnJomF/Qx nnPA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.40.228 with SMTP id a4mr8408737lbl.26.1363716050530; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:00:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.26.135 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:00:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:00:50 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: LSI 9260: is there a way to configure it JBOD like mps? From: Tom Evans To: Dmitry Morozovsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:00:52 -0000 On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I'm currently in process of making new backup server, based on LSI 9260 > controller. I'm planning to use ZFS over disks, hence the most natural way > seems to configure mfi to JBOD mode - but I can't find easy way to reach this, > neither in BIOS utilities nor via MegaCli > > Any hints? > > Thanks! > 9260 should be SAS-2008 based, so mps(4) not mfi(4). The internet[1] suggests that this card should be flashable to a 9211-8i with IT mode firmware, which is just about the ultimate ZFS card, instant-JBOD on inserting a disk, passthru for SMART, high performance, etc. Cheers Tom [1] http://blog.grem.de/sysadmin/LSI-SAS2008-Flashing-2012-04-12-22-17.html