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Hi, folks, Got an older Dell R410, with an LSI 1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08). It *appears* that a) trying MegaRaid, and b) from what I'm googling, that what I need are mptfusion-related packages. Unfortunately, yum shows me nothing available in base, epel, or rpmfusion. Am I looking for the wrong thing, or does anyone have a source (no, I haven't looked at LSI, sorry

...card, and has 2TB disk limits, I believe, which > can't readily be circumvented. > > Confusing, but to flash these, you need to get the > SAS3081ER_Package_P21_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows, unzip it, > and locate the firmware and BIOS files for IT mode, then get the > flash2sas utility for Linux to actually flash the files. or flash it > using MSDOS (freedos on a usb stick) or using EFI shell (if your system > is so endowed). > > to find this stuff, go here, > http://www.avagotech.com/support/download-search select "Legacy Host > Bus Adapters&quo...

...rds thats an older SAS1 card, and has 2TB disk limits, I believe, which can't readily be circumvented. Confusing, but to flash these, you need to get the SAS3081ER_Package_P21_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows, unzip it, and locate the firmware and BIOS files for IT mode, then get the flash2sas utility for Linux to actually flash the files. or flash it using MSDOS (freedos on a usb stick) or using EFI shell (if your system is so endowed). to find this stuff, go here, http://www.avagotech.com/support/download-search select "Legacy Host Bus Adapters", and LSI SAS 3081E-R,...