Re: Dell PERC H330: no disks, no volumes

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, 15 Sept 2022 at 19:27, Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> 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



I have totally forgotten the model numbers of any of this, but in
another area at the last $DAYJOB place we did that too for SmartOS and
for the same reason.  Until somewhat recently, however, that wasn't a
supported configuration by Dell...  it is now.  There was also a BIOS
annoyance in that the simple HBA wasn't seen and would not be reported
in the DRAC (at least the versions we had).




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