I am building a filer based on OpenIndiana/ZFS using the SuperMicro 6036ST-6LR super server because I need HA. To use ZFS efficiently I want to use I/T mode on the SAS controllers.
I flashed the controllers using PH11 from ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2008/IT/Firmware/ and everything seemed to work fine. The flash completed successfully but I could not see the SAS expander and the 8 SAS drives in the SAS BIOS topology list when I rebooted. I also expected to see them on the Boot page of the MB BIOS as well. The MB BIOS did show the SAS controller (but no drives).
I then re-flashed with the PH10 IT. Same thing.
I then re-flashed with the PH11 IR mode. Same thing.
I then re-flashed using ver 12 from LSI (9211-8i) but that removed the controller from the BIOS boot menu which leads me to believe that SuperMicro does some customization of their firmware so I flashed back to PH11 I/T mode.
I have not seen this before but my previous experience has been with SATA with a single head that used the LSI SAS 2008 HBA. It worked perfectly on the first try which leads me to believe that there is something that I am missing because I have not used SAS drives and SAS expanders before.
Can you suggest how I can get SAS working?
Thanks.
I flashed the controllers using PH11 from ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2008/IT/Firmware/ and everything seemed to work fine. The flash completed successfully but I could not see the SAS expander and the 8 SAS drives in the SAS BIOS topology list when I rebooted. I also expected to see them on the Boot page of the MB BIOS as well. The MB BIOS did show the SAS controller (but no drives).
I then re-flashed with the PH10 IT. Same thing.
I then re-flashed with the PH11 IR mode. Same thing.
I then re-flashed using ver 12 from LSI (9211-8i) but that removed the controller from the BIOS boot menu which leads me to believe that SuperMicro does some customization of their firmware so I flashed back to PH11 I/T mode.
I have not seen this before but my previous experience has been with SATA with a single head that used the LSI SAS 2008 HBA. It worked perfectly on the first try which leads me to believe that there is something that I am missing because I have not used SAS drives and SAS expanders before.
Can you suggest how I can get SAS working?
Thanks.