[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 11/10/2012 10:35, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 10:25 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> Hello,
>> vendor wants us to buy Dell Precision T3600 with Xeon E5-1650 16 GB ECC.
>> processor (C600 series Chipset, Raid Card H310 PCIe, Intel 82579 Gbe
>> controller). Does anybody know if that works with OI151a7 ? Don't want
>> to return 3 large boxes ...
>
> Possibly the only sore point could be the H310 controller. Is it the
> full PCI-e version of the card or the mini-type? If it's the full-sized
> one, it's easy to reflash to IT firmware (since it's based on the
> venerable LSI SAS 2008 chip) and get full JBOD functionality for ZFS.

Don't know, both full and minitype are listed in the manual:

<http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/Storlink/PERC_8/en/UG_PERC8_en.pdf>

But on page 43 it says drives can be converted to NON-Raid for H310.
Would that already help ?
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