On Nov 11, 2020, at 8:07 PM, John Pierce jhn.pierce@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:47 PM Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
I’m sure you can reflash LSI card to make it SATA or SAS HBA, or MegaRAD hardware RAID adapter. Is far as I recollect it is the same electronics board. I reflashed a couple of HBAs to make them MegaRAID boards.
you can reflash SOME megaraid cards to put them in IT 'hba' mode, but not others.
One thing though bothers me about LSI, now after last it was bought by Intel its future faith worries me. Intel pushed 3ware which it acquired in the same package with LSI already into oblivion…
Its Avago, formerly Aligent, and before that HP, which bought LSI, 3Ware, and then Broadcom, and renamed itself Broadcom.
I am apparently wrong, at least about LSI, it still belongs to broadcom, thanks!
Long before broadcom acquired LSI and 3ware, I was awfully displeased by their WiFi chip: infamous BCM43xx. It is 32 bit chip sitting on 64 bit bus. No [sane] open source programmer will be happy to write driver for that. For ages we were using ndis wrapper…. As much as I disliked broadcom for their wireless chipset, I loved them for their ethernet one. And I recollect this was long ago before acquisition by broadcom of LSI and 3ware. Or am I wrong?
Valeri
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