LSI SAS2008 mps driver preferred firmware version

[Royce Williams]

Firmware should match driver, e.g.:

mps0: Firmware: 19.00.00.00, Driver: 19.00.00.00-fbs


Some of this may help -- not yet updated for 10.2, but may still be useful:

http://roycebits.blogspot.com/2015/01/freebsd-lsi-sas9211-8i-hba-firmware.html

Royce

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Kai Gallasch <k at free.de> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm currently building a new ZFS based FreeBSD 10.2 server with a
> SAS/SATA HBA SAS9211-8i.
>
> Is there a preferred or recommended firmware version for Fusion-MPT
> SAS-2 2008 chipset based LSI cards like the SAS9211-8i? MPS(4) does not
> give any information about this.
>
> The current version of my SAS9211-8i is:
> v7.05.05.00 (2010.05.19), BIOS
> 5.00.17.00-IR, FW
>
>
> IR vs. IT firmware:
>
> Are there any advantages replacing the -IR (integrated raid) firmware on
> the LSI controller with an -IT (target mode) version, if the RAID
> functionality of the HBA is not used at all?
>
> There were some claims that running the -IR version in a ZFS JBOD setup
> would result in a small performance penalty compared to -IT and that
> there was a risk that a controller running the -IR firmware version
> could potentially damage ZFS data on a disk by putting RAID metadata
> somewhere on the drive, even if not using the RAID feature of the card!
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this.
>
> Regards,
> Kai.
>
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