On 26/10/17 14:31, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 24/10/17 22:47, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
[trimmed the story of reflashing the LSI to the latest IT fw]
As a final test I plan to boot the actual server with this card and 3 sacrificial disks (now all zeroed) attached, to confirm that nothing is written to the disks.
For the record, in closing this thread: - I did the above test and confirmed that the disks are not written to by the driver. - I replaced the HighPoint HBA with the LSI and simply moved the SFF-8087 across. The array came up without issue. - I ran a full raid 'check' - zero mismatches. This was a good surprise because I had three cases of full array failures with the HighPoint and expected some corruption. What I noted so far: - the heat sink feels very hot even after short usage. - the disks were now in a different order, pretty much reverse order. I am not sure the order will remain fixed (by port number?) or variable (as the disks spin up). I thank all who responded, I found it very helpful. cheers Eyal
As an aside, I now do not see the text corruption I mentioned earlier, so it was probably the BIOS causing it and not FreeDOS. cheers
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