Correct. LSI 1068E has IR and IT firmwares + I have gone from IR -> IT and IT -> IR without hassle.
Damon Pollard On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Jason Usher <jushe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Ok, and your LSI 1068E also had alternate IR and IT firmwares, and you > went from IR -> IT ? > > Is that correct ? > > Thanks. > > > --- On Tue, 7/17/12, Damon Pollard <damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com> > wrote: > > From: Damon Pollard <damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com> > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched from IR -> IT firmware on > the fly ? (existing zpool on LSI 9211-8i) > To: "Jason Usher" <jushe...@yahoo.com> > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 5:05 PM > > Hi Jason, > I have done this in the past. (3x LSI 1068E - IBM BR10i). > Your pool has no tie with the hardware used to host it (including your > HBA). You could change all your hardware, and still import your pool > correctly. > > If you really want to be on the safe side; you can export your pool before > the firmware change and then import when your satisfied the firmware > change is complete. > Export: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/gazqr/index.html > Import: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/817-2271/gazuf/index.html > Damon Pollard > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Jason Usher <jushe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > We have a running zpool with a 12 disk raidz3 vdev in it ... we gave ZFS > the full, raw disks ... all is well. > > > > However, we built it on two LSI 9211-8i cards and we forgot to change from > IR firmware to IT firmware. > > > > Is there any danger in shutting down the OS, flashing the cards to IT > firmware, and then booting back up ? > > > > We did not create any raid configuration - as far as we know, the LSI > cards are just passing through the disks to ZFS ... but maybe not ? > > > > I'd like to hear of someone else doing this successfully before we try it > ... > > > > > > We created the zpool with raw disks: > > > > zpool create -m /mount/point MYPOOL raidz3 da{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11} > > > > and diskinfo tells us that each disk is: > > > > da1 512 3000592982016 5860533168 > > > > The physical label (the sticker) on the disk also says 5860533168 sectors > ... so that seems to line up ... > > > > > > Someone else in the world has made this change "while inflight" and can > confirm ? > > > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > zfs-discuss mailing list > > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > > > >
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