Greets to all. Managed to inherit a Dell PERC H830 SAS RAID controller, now trying to get it working in my home-based Dell PowerEdge R710 server.
Dell's specs say the H380 has an LSI SAS 3108 chip in it. LSI/Avago/Broadcom says that chip -- and all the SAS RAID cards it makes based on that chip -- are tested as compatible with Dell PE R710/720/730 servers. However, it won't boot in my Dell R710. Just gets to the part in POST where you can hit Ctrl-R to enter RAID setup menu and it freezes there. R710 has lastest BIOS (6.40) and Broadcom's page says it requires minimum BIOS 6.10 so I'm OK there. I'm guessing it's either I need to update the H830's firmware to the latest (25.5 as of today) and try again. LSI says this is a PCI Gen3 slot product and the R710 only offers PCI Gen2, but last I heard PCI Gen3 is still backwards compatible with Gen2.
However, if that doesn't work, does anyone have any experience crossflashing the H830 to the equivalent LSI/Avago/Broadcom product? I wouldn't be surprised if there's some nifty Dell-specific option in the firmware that's breaking something that would otherwise work with the LSI/Avago/Broadcom standard firmware.
Thanks in advance!
Dell's specs say the H380 has an LSI SAS 3108 chip in it. LSI/Avago/Broadcom says that chip -- and all the SAS RAID cards it makes based on that chip -- are tested as compatible with Dell PE R710/720/730 servers. However, it won't boot in my Dell R710. Just gets to the part in POST where you can hit Ctrl-R to enter RAID setup menu and it freezes there. R710 has lastest BIOS (6.40) and Broadcom's page says it requires minimum BIOS 6.10 so I'm OK there. I'm guessing it's either I need to update the H830's firmware to the latest (25.5 as of today) and try again. LSI says this is a PCI Gen3 slot product and the R710 only offers PCI Gen2, but last I heard PCI Gen3 is still backwards compatible with Gen2.
However, if that doesn't work, does anyone have any experience crossflashing the H830 to the equivalent LSI/Avago/Broadcom product? I wouldn't be surprised if there's some nifty Dell-specific option in the firmware that's breaking something that would otherwise work with the LSI/Avago/Broadcom standard firmware.
Thanks in advance!