Sounds like 3008 has both IT & IR firmwares, as the 2008 has. I had a look in the past and sounded difficult to flash a Dell SAS adapter with a LSI firmware, well, not so easy. I however did not try it myself, so others may share their experience :)
Ben > On 07 Oct 2017, at 22:48, Kevin Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > > A 3008 is an IT-mode card. I think the 3108 is an IR-mode only card. > I don't think dell does much to the firmwares, you can probably flash > them with Broadcom ones if needed. > > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Lee Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I want to purchase a dell R330 system with a "SAS 12Gbps HBA External >> Controller", which I believe is this (pdf) >> <http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-12Gbps-SAS-HBA.pdf> >> card, based on the LSI SAS 3008 controller, which seems to be supported by >> the mpr driver. >> >> Would anybody be so kind as to verify this looks right before I purchase a >> brick! >> >> Many thanks -- lee _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
