topic/zfs-discuss/ZILZT5qINSI Not even an LSI print ant the PCIe-print in another place compared to proven authentic ones. While learning about servers or the homelab community, you might have heard mentions and recommendations of the LSI 9211-8i HAB card. Took me 6 hours to figure out all this (I always tried to ignore as much as I could about UEFI and SecureBoot).

LSI Broadcom SAS HBA OS support list LSI Broadcom SAS HBA OS support list

This performance saving is due to the HBA cards having integrated processors responsible for managing these IO operations and other features like RAID natively on the HBA card. ESXi Host 1: SuperMicro X9SRL-F, E5-2620v2, 96GB ECC RAM | VMs: DNS/DHCP, Stash, OpenSSL CA, PS Jumpbox, Splunk, Nagios, about 20 more. I don't think this matters for my use case, but I'm curious if you can force the mps driver to load in /boot/loader.When ran through the HP SAS i was led to belive it would be a ghost and the drives would transpire through right on the LSI card.

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I tried Rufus method, I tried simply formatting the drive to FAT partition and creating /boot/efi/…. Like you, I'm concerned mainly about keeping my files from becoming corrupted or disappearing completely. Once it’s installed, plug in the USB drive and find the block device name (in my case, it was ‘/dev/sdb’). Given that a spinning rust hard-drive might give your 130MBps at the best of times, then, with PCI-e 8X, you need to have 30 HDDs at full bandwidth to saturate the bus.There are two ports on the card and each port creates 4 SATA ports, which means I can have eight additional dedicated SATA ports. The goal of STH is simply to help users find some information about server, storage and networking, building blocks. ABOUT USServeTheHome is the IT professional's guide to servers, storage, networking, and high-end workstation hardware, plus great open source projects.

Convert LSI 9211-8i HBA card to IT mode - nguvu.org Convert LSI 9211-8i HBA card to IT mode - nguvu.org

mps0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xdf1bc000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0. Looking for a better controller I’ve learned the popular LSI 9211-8i, which is optimal for my setup as well (8xHDD). I wanted to use the IT mode for various reasons (mainly no dependencies towards specific HW + wanted to have full control of performance) and I had therefore to flash the card's firmware and load the one for the IT-mode.Secondly the passive cooled Atom boards overheat according to user experience and require active cooling as well. Others have reported solid compatibility with newer Intel SAS expanders so for those looking for high-port counts at low costs for software RAID, the LSI 9211-8i makes a lot of sense.