On Thu, 15 Sept 2022 at 19:27, Brad Spencer <b...@anduin.eldar.org> wrote: > > In the foggy recesses of my memory this is Just How It Is Done. At my > final $DAYJOB we had a set of systems that had some PERC controller in > them. The desire was to present the raw disks to Hadoop and the only > way that could be done was to create a virtual disk for each physical > device. There was no other option available to us.
I was annoyed enough by this behaviour to swap out the PERC on my old T320 for another model, specifically one for which I could find generic LSI firmware, so it would expose the 8 disks directly to NetBSD (for ZFS use) mpii0: SAS9217-8i, firmware 20.0.7.0, MPI 2.0 David