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On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Peter Lai wrote:

> Is there a reason you are ordering your Dells with H700 instead of
> H200; do you really want the battery backed cache anyway?
> =
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/topics=
/en/us/raid_controller?c=3Dus&l=3Den&cs=3D555
> suggests the H200 has jbod mode...

Indeed, it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Or am I wrong?

> FWIW, in our case, we didn't need 16 ports and were ok with 3gb
> channels so we actually just settled with the dumb mpt controller.
>> Maybe there would be a way to just tell the card firmware to shut up =
and let it work like a simple  and well behaved SAS card?
>=20
> One could wish :)

Well, the ugly patch to mfi_cam lets me access the disks. Of course it =
doesn't seen to be a clean solution.




Borja.