Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Flashing an integrated LSI 1068e RAID controller on an old HP z800

So firstly, the 'why' towards doing this is for the want to using a software raid found in various distros such as FreeNAS ZFS, Linux BTRFS etc.  I feel the 1068e as implemented by HP and LSI on this board (and from my research on a lot of 'embedded' 'integrated' setups on other boards) was seriously affecting performance as well- the RAID 10 write speeds were atrocious and no-where near the ~130mbs it should have been at.

So off to the races- after much research it was looking impossible, all the info out there was in regards to the PCI card setups, not the embedded setups and the tutorials and scripts would not work.  Then I fell on an unRAID thread HERE, page 53 second post down had a write-up.

Add-on notes to that tutorial-
- choose PCI-e when prompted
- 3081 when prompted

enjoy

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