From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 21 10:54:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A16CB5CC for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rincebrain@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x231.google.com (mail-ia0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F82D10 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:54:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f177.google.com with SMTP id y25so2212021iay.8 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:54:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=nRW4wQ6c8n0u+35VUcoLvXE+3cg7l9xOrDIwEKvXo1M=; b=YBB6ueafgi4NZxRqaLXpqKIy+dNb1JRvBecy0on+i9gfT1Rg8vTufRRk4wevXoFrG6 57uhL1iel4Yy12w/8mgdxpKzfEOFupUKkav5T76/JCRLum+mMAq+ZTuFPFKpViELpxDG xQmWBwD2G0M39rgHT8GFf56q271OVsv5pjDIbFA1keFeI0wM2RVIgg8+FUHjHFoGj6qS 9g71/cMG3Y/rjKJrxBuENFItCs2YKaBDnNhmVOJ8ePPWMWpVwfH6y+cY2LN/yd7irnCY rB9YqoJyl+nSX/R3KSROJPnY4ZCkNiEfOKEDaQ3RsFR6ZmS0BI25s7PR2gMe7ZyevnuF WwoA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.192.165 with SMTP id hh5mr1790892igc.89.1363863251098; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: rincebrain@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.165.166 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:54:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:54:10 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qqKT7U4O_dYDUiRDh7CSQp-vwyE Message-ID: Subject: Re: LSI 9260: is there a way to configure it JBOD like mps? From: Rich 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: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:54:11 -0000 On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitry Morozovsky" >> >> > 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? >> >> I don't remember the model number, but you may find there's an >> IT mode FW which will make it report under mps and not mfi. >> >> If that's one of the versions which has no IT mode FW then you >> can try configuring JBOD under mfi with something like:- >> >> MegaCli -AdpSetProp -EnableJBOD -1 -aALL > > I did. No luck :( > > Well, it seems I'll have to create 12 RAOI0 volumes :-/ 924x will do JBOD, 926x will not. One of those annoying little caveats for no clear reason. But yes, I'd imagine you can destructively reflash it from DOS into a 9211-8i if it's the 2008 chipset. [If it's 2108/2208, that's a different FW but same concept.] - Rich