[OmniOS-discuss] Dell H330 and mpt_sas on r151022

[John D Groenveld]

In message <tencent_4B1DCC2A73618D7533B960D1 at qq.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?B?QXJpZXM=?=
 writes:
>Actually the Dell H330 only has one hybrid mode firmware which can be switched
> between raid and HBA modes. All the distributions include Solaris and linux r
>egard this kind firmware of H330 as IR mode regardless of the raid or HBA mode
>. Although I always put it in HBA mode, the mr_sas or something similar is use
>d. Therefore when I read the release note of r151022, I was surprised that Omn
>iOS started to support H330 via mpt_sas. However the test result seems a bit d
>isappointing.

The H330 looks awfully like Broadcom/LSI's 9300-8i:
<URL:http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-RAID-Controller-H330.pdf>
<URL:https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8i#specifications>

What happens when you sas3flash the Dell HBA with the LSI SAS3008
IT firmware?

Also, what's the PCI ID for the H330?

John
groenveld at acm.org