From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
Cc: list linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: upgrading LSI SAS9211-8i fw IR->IT
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:14:57 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171024171457.563fbb2a@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08feefcc-14d0-e7ec-aa23-927ecbb63ac3@eyal.emu.id.au>
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:47:48 +1100
Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> I now want to upgrade the fw from IR to IT.
Is there any practical reason for doing that?
I have a SAS9212-4i with a very ancient IR firmware -- and the thing is, it
just works perfectly as a dumb SATA controller, including full SMART access to
connected disks -- what else is there to ask from it?
(no TRIM pass-through, but that's kind of "by design" with these cards, and I
doubt it's fixed in the new firmware)
If I'm not mistaken it's IT that is the simpler firmware for when you don't
need the hardware RAID, but considering the above, and how cumbersome and risky
the flashing process is, what am I losing by staying with IR?
Anyways here's one more HOWTO on flashing that may or may not be more helpful
than the ones you listed:
https://wiki.hackspherelabs.com/index.php?title=LSI_Raid_Firmware_Bios_Flashing
--
With respect,
Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-24 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-24 11:47 upgrading LSI SAS9211-8i fw IR->IT Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-10-24 12:14 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2017-10-24 13:04 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-10-24 17:59 ` Roman Mamedov
2017-10-26 3:31 ` [sucess?] " Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-10-27 23:09 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-10-29 15:02 ` Brad Campbell
2017-11-02 10:51 ` [sucess] " Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-11-03 0:54 ` Brad Campbell
2017-11-03 2:31 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-11-03 3:03 ` Brad Campbell
2017-11-03 3:39 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-11-06 20:15 ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-11-06 21:38 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2017-11-06 21:48 ` Phil Turmel
2017-11-06 21:59 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
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