Thanks for the replies, everyone.
On 5/8/2015 5:17 AM, David Gwynne wrote:
im pretty sure the s300 is actually the ahci ports coming off the motherboard.
if its in ahci mode it should Just Work(tm) as a sata controller. not sas,
sorry.
I got the S300 with a used R210-II; it actually is a PCIe card with an
SFF-8484 connector with a fanout cable for the drives. I'll probably
just pull the card from this machine and use the onboard SATA, since the
drives are SATA anyway. (I guess the previous owner got the S300 for
softraid.)
On 5/7/2015 10:41 PM, Jim Giannoules wrote:
> The Dell PERC S300 is a "SWRAID" product. It is correct that the
hardware is an LSI1068e, but programmed with modified PCI IDs (all four
a diffferent: vendor, device, sub-vendor, sub-device). The expansion ROM
and drivers are from DotHill systems and are looking for these update
IDs. The controller itself is running the IR/IT firmware with IR
soft-disabled. To turn the controller back into a normal LSI1068e you
would need to update the expansion ROM and the PCI IDs.
Thanks for the info. If I can't do anything else with it I'll probably
try this as a last-ditch effort.
> As a science experiment you might be able to modify mpi(4) to look
for the S300 IDs, but that would be an OS runtime only fix.
This is probably worth trying, thanks.
