Dell 1950 with Perc 6i

[Ray Milyard]

How can I use this card with ZFS?

 

[SweetAndLow]

Did you even try? Start reading the stickies or you will have a bad experience with freenas/zfs.


https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/perc-6i.15419/

 

[HoneyBadger]

Flash it to the LSI IT firmware (LSI1068E) and don't use drives larger than 2TB.

Do not use it with the stock Dell firmware and definitely do not make a bunch of RAID0 single-disk sets and pass those through thinking it's the same.

Here's a reference to a user performing the flash of a PERC6/i with different firmwares, including some LSI branded:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg142399;topicseen#msg142399

I haven't tried on a PERC6/i specifically, but the process for an H200/H310 is well documented here:

https://techmattr.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/sas-hba-crossflashing-or-flashing-to-it-mode/

 

[JDCynical]

Another thing to note, a PE 1950 is a really old machine. It's going to be a power hog, noisy, and slow for FreeNAS purposes.