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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:05:38 +0100
From:      Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
To:        Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta@wp.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS on Hardware RAID
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> On 23 Jan 2019, at 09:38, Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta@wp.pl> wrote:
>=20
> W dniu 2019-01-23 o 08:15, Borja Marcos pisze:
>> By the way, some of these =E2=80=9Cpure raid=E2=80=9D cards can be =
cross flashed to be plain HBAs but it=E2=80=99s a risky procedure. I =
bricked one or two.
>=20
> any experience with these ones?
>=20
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 9266-4i
> LSI MegaRAID SAS 84016E

Not really, the ones I have used were rebranded by Dell or IBM.

My advice is not to try to cross flash them from MegaRAID. Better try =
the mfi and mfip approach with the passthrough
tunable. I have some servers running like that for 10 years now and they =
are solid.






Borja.





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