Hi, It's a must (that I know of) only on LSI controllers because otherwise performance on ZFS suffers quite a lot.
Other controllers have different quirks, like some adaptecs needing a debug flag passed to enable HBA mode. The IR to IT flash is easy. You need a pendrive with FreeDOS bootable and the firmware from LSI. They have pretty decent instructions on their website and you should be able to perform the whole procedure in less than 30 minutes. Bryan Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Harry Putnam Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 06:32 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Reply To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] paging any HP xw8600 users.. or knowledgeable others Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.med...@runbox.com> writes: > I had an XW8200 for a long while but didn't chime in much because mine was > still SCSI+sata. > > I added an LSI SAS 4-port controller on PCIe 4x and haven't looked back until > the motherboard died six months ago. Thank you much for the experienced info. > I also would suggest an add-on controller, with the caveat that you > should remember to flash in IT mode and not RAID/IR. Would that flash step be necessary with most any add on Controler? And is it a complicated thing to occomplish? _______________________________________________ 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
