Re: Dell PERC H330: no disks, no volumes

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 15 Sept 2022 at 19:27, Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> 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