jgreco
Resident Grinch
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- May 29, 2011
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It'll take me time to process all this input and to see where and how my misunderstandings have repercussed along the way. That probably makes no sense. I'm feeling a bit fried..also after spending much time reading (or blinking at) the crossflash guide, and between Rufus and bootice trying to flash this HP H220 (2308-2) card.
Don't feel bad. Here in the shop I crossflash cards in batches when I can because the workflow can be somewhat annoying. Working with these things professionally, it sometimes seems like my time is entirely devoted to waiting for BIOS's to probe, waiting to hit the right magic key during startup, and doing trite and meaningless firmware updates just to make sure things are all correct. You can sometimes spend an entire day and feel like you've made no real progress.
@jgreco -apologies for contributing to the spread of inaccurate information, and thank you for the detailed and enlightening corrections.
Really, not that. You came with what was basically an observation that works out to being more-or-less functionally correct, and wondered how it applied to SAS. I don't mind wading into a nuanced situation and explaining. I'm just sitting here bored waiting for VM builds to progress.
It's entertainment to me, educational (possibly needlessly) to you.
As far as why I want what I want..obviously I'm far from the professional realms of many in this forum. I guess I've been coy about that, which is annoying, but -OK, I have no good earthly purpose in that, on some level, I'm just goofing around with my PC, and learning things as I go, but only within a relatively limited capacity for grasping all the concepts. If that discourages anyone from further replies, I certainly understand.
I think you'll find most of the users here are NOT professionals. There are a whole lot of them who do FreeNAS just because "they can" or "it's there." This forum has numerous resources that exist to help drag you through most of the challenging bits. There's usually someone who can answer a question that isn't already covered somewhere.