Context:
I have purchased a Dell PERC H330 (P/N: 04Y5H1) thinking that I could flash it to IT. I have it installed in an R710. A friend of mine also has an R710 with another SAS3008-based card. Despite the fact that it's a server with a backplane that is ostensibly limited to 6Gb/s, he is showing 12Gb/s connectivity. (1200Mb/s according to dmesg.)
It doesn't make sense but it's working. (I don't want to get into the debate about backplanes here.)
I've been trying to figure out what firmware I can flash this card with... For now, I can't even use MegaCLI to access the card. The card's BIOS menu shows either RAID mode or HBA mode. I am currently using the latter and can see the drives as "daX" devices in FreeNAS.
But THIS is the problem:
da0: 150.000MB/s transfers
da1: 150.000MB/s transfers
da2: 150.000MB/s transfers
da3: 150.000MB/s transfers
da4: 150.000MB/s transfers
da5: 150.000MB/s transfers
That's TERRIBLE. Makes zero sense as to why it would scale down 12Gb/s drives to almost NOTHING in speed. At the minimum, it shouldn't be running anything lower than 600MB/s...
I've been searching for the information but either it doesn't exist or I'm just NOT finding it. All I have been able to do thus far is download the firmware shown for the 9300-8i from Broadcom but if the sas3flash tool doesn't see the adapter (it doesn't) then that won't do me any good.
I'm about fed up with this, honestly. I'm thinking about destroying this adapter with a hammer then putting my old HBA in. It works at the correct speeds...