[OmniOS-discuss] Supermicro board with LSI 2008

[Eric Sproul]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Fábio Rabelo <fabio at fabiorabelo.wiki.br> wrote:
> This LSI 2008 works with OminOS as it comes, ?
>
> Or it needs some firmware change ??

The LSI 2008 is supported by either mr_sas(7D) or mpt_sas(7D),
depending on the firmware.  The default on most Supermicro boards (and
LSI HBAs in general) is "IR", or RAID-mode, firmware.  This is what
mr_sas attaches to.  If you re-flash the chip with "IT", or non-RAID
mode, firmware, then mpt_sas will attach.  There are a couple of SKUs
that Supermicro ships that already have IT firmware in the onboard SAS
chip.  The SKUs end in "-JBOD" and they use the 2308, not the 2008,
but mpt_sas is still the driver that supports it.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DR7-LN4F-JBOD.cfm
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD.cfm

These are known informally to the community as the "ZFS Special".  :)

Even if you opt for one of the other boards with a 2008 chip, you
should still be able to find IT firmware bundles on Supermicro's FTP
site.

Eric