mpr vs mps performance

[Martin Nilsson]

On 2014-10-07 18:11, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Stephen Mcconnell
> <stephen.mcconnell at avagotech.com> wrote:
>> Borja, can you upgrade your card to the latest FW.  Your version is really
>> old (1.00.03.00).  We should be up to 7.00.00.00 now.  There could be a lot
>> of fixes that would affect performance.
> To update the firmware, you must download LSI's
> Installer_P6_for_FreeBSD from the link below.  Then the tricky part:
> you must hexedit the executable and replace all "mps3_" strings with
> "mpr", suitably padded with NULLs.  It sucks, I know; complain to
> LSI/Avago.  Then you must download the
> 9300_8e_Package_P6_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows (or whichever is
> appropriate for your hardware) to get the actual firmware files.  Then
> you can use the hacked FreeBSD installer binary to download the
> firmware from the Windows firmware package.
>
> http://www.lsi.com/support/pages/download-results.aspx?component=Storage+Component&productfamily=Host+Bus+Adapters&productcode=P00766&assettype=0&productname=LSI+SAS+9300-8e

Or you can put the firmware and the efi version of the installer on FAT 
formatted USB stick and boot into an EFI shell after POST.
Then change to the usb stick with fs0:
 From there it works like a normal command interface.

Much simpler...