David Brownlee <a...@absd.org> writes: > On Thu, 15 Sept 2022 at 19:27, Brad Spencer <b...@anduin.eldar.org> wrote: >> >> In the foggy recesses of my memory this is Just How It Is Done. At my >> final $DAYJOB we had a set of systems that had some PERC controller in >> them. The desire was to present the raw disks to Hadoop and the only >> way that could be done was to create a virtual disk for each physical >> device. There was no other option available to us. > > I was annoyed enough by this behaviour to swap out the PERC on my old > T320 for another model, specifically one for which I could find > generic LSI firmware, so it would expose the 8 disks directly to > NetBSD (for ZFS use) > > mpii0: SAS9217-8i, firmware 20.0.7.0, MPI 2.0 > > David
I have totally forgotten the model numbers of any of this, but in another area at the last $DAYJOB place we did that too for SmartOS and for the same reason. Until somewhat recently, however, that wasn't a supported configuration by Dell... it is now. There was also a BIOS annoyance in that the simple HBA wasn't seen and would not be reported in the DRAC (at least the versions we had). -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
