What firmware reflashing are you thinking of? I don't expect a need to reflash the H310 unless you're going for the IT firmware...
- Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/02/2012 03:21 PM, Open Indiana wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some NAS in our network (effectively 4TB) and already received a >> quote from DELL for a R320 with a Perc H310. >> This seems to be a branded LSI LSISAS2008 but it needs modification before I >> can use it with OpenIndiana. >> >> Has anyone some suggestions (apart from do not use Dell) on the best >> controller? >> >> Thanks in advance. > > The Perc H310 is OK after a few firmware reflash steps (I can send you > all you need for that) but make damn sure you don't get the "Mini-type" > on, but rather the full PCI-e model. The reason is that for the reflash > you need to move the card from the storage slot to another PCI-e slot > (otherwise the motherboard firmware will halt your machine while booting > - an absolutely dickish move, but that's Dell for you). The Mini-type > cards have a proprietary mezzanine-style slot, so reflashing those is > effectively out of the question (unless you want to play > hot-plug-a-PCI-e-device with it). > > -- > Saso > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
