LifeCycle Controller: F7XJ1 (1.6.5.12_A00)īackplane: V8Y6N (1.10A00) - I think - it reports 1.10 and I can't tell if the A00 is relevant and the file was released later than the system build. Here are my firmware versions (as best I can tell - Dell has some errors that make different tools say different things) Big believer in "run the latest and greatest" but don't want to blow something up poking around pointlessly. Anyone have an R510 and want to tell me latest and greatest on all firmware and how you got there? Have tried 3 ways so far - best option was to fight (and I mean fight) with the Dell Repository Manager, although it missed things (like the H200I and the iDRAC6 updates) that I had to do manually and I'm concerned it missed more than that.
#DELL PERC H200 VS H700 SPEED UPGRADE#
I think the drive speeds I'm seeing prove that the backplane firmware and expander firmware are "fine" up to SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) Finding versions on these was PAINFUL and walking through the upgrade process even more so. More Questons (if anyone is feeling really patient):ĭo I need to mess with changing the default queuing length (was short on an H310 not sure about the H200? (I really really do not want to move to a different slot and what I read is inconsistent on whether cross-flashing to LSI firmware can be done without blowing up the integrated slot functionality and I don't want to buy and use longer cables) I will be using a Sun F20 Flash Accelerator (96GB of Over-Provisioned SSD striped as 4 devices for speed) as the ZIL and L2ARC caches on ZFS (and this device will provide battery backup caching so speed and data integrity won't be an issue I don't think with the H200). I completely get the idea of NOT wanting hardware RAID getting in the way and adding a layer of (possible) corruption, but I keep reading that passthrough means "drive is just seen with no configuration" and this card seems to do this out of the box. But doesn't this PROVE that the H200I using Dell OEM firmware is, in fact, using passthrough on drives that are not registered through the RAID control panel in the H200 (CTL-C)? I know some RAID cards can do that using RAID0 virtual drives, but surely I would have to TELL it to do that, wouldn't I?
I'm new to this HBA/RAID/IR/IT thing and I've read a lot. Booting into Debian 9 (Proxmox) and viewing connection parameters, the drives are shown in /dev/disk and the connection speed on the drive that is capable of SATA 3.0 correctly shows "operating at 6Gbps". The firmware says "IR" on boot, yet, finds and reports the drives WITHOUT pressing CTL-C or doing any configuring. I plugged in a 4TB SATA drive (512e) and an 8T SATA drive (512e). C an someone who knows HBAs better convince me I'm wrong given the proof I'll share below?
I think this card works fine in actual passthrough mode with OEM firmware as an IR device.
I'll give more info below in case needed, but here is my question. I swapped out the PERC H700 to an H200 because, like everyone, I am running ZFS.
#DELL PERC H200 VS H700 SPEED PRO#
I just bought my first server - an R510 - though I've been a computer pro for decades (DB SW and only Home HW) Thanks - love the board - have read for dozens of hours over days but hoping for a few crumbs from the experienced to save more dozens of hours.