Re: mfi vs mpii and st devices

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On 16/07/19 4:08 am, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 05:32:44PM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
>>> Would you expect to be able to see an st device attached to an mfi card?
>>>  The st is visible when attached to an mpii
>>
>> I don't think it'll work when attached to a mfi, as its firmware hides
>> physical devices to provide logical volumes.

Thats what I though, and seemed to be what experiment was showing.

> You could reflash it to IT mode if you didn't need RAID.

Amy pointers on how to do this?  I have some Dell PERC H310 cards that
I'm happy to try this out on.

cheers
mark