Re: HP ProLiant DL380 G5

[John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/21/2014 5:49 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> I never heard about any LSI card called RAID which are not hardware RAID.

the base LSI SAS HBA cards, like the 2008 chip (9211-8i etc boards) have 
microcoded hardware raid without any write buffer or battery 
backup....   Its not quite fake raid but its kinda in limbo..

I *much* prefer to use these cards in IT mode, which requires reflashing 
the firmware and BIOS, as they always seem to be shipped in IR mode.   
IT mode is plain SAS2 Initiator-Target mode, where the disks are just 
plain disks without needing to create volumes or any other nonsense.



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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