[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

[Rich]

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.ml at 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
>
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