hardware

For my records, when it comes time to deciding what to use, this is R730-04.

This is one of the 4x R730 hosts, known as R730-02.

This is the R730 known as R730-03. This post has been replaced by a newer post. Note the number of cores. I see a package build server…

This is the host I’ve been talking about. Adding this entry to /boot/loader.conf will turn off MFI and enable MRSAS instead. hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=”1″ Then you’ll see expected device names for drives, such as da0 instead of mfisyspd0. This will be done later. The HBA installed in this host is supported by the FreeBSD mrsas driver. The host has the Invader/Fury 12Gb/s MR controller installed. There will be more drives. These aren’t necessarily the drives

R740? What R740? I don’t have an R740. But I do have an R730. Please try that link instead. Thanks to Mr Barrow for pointing out this error.

EDIT: I’m updating this post with new information, I’m missing some photos – they are on my other laptop… EDIT: If you get stuck with older firmware which cannot use existing DELL infrastructure, give https://updateyodell.net a try. It helped me leapfrog along the upgrade path. I started reading Updating firmware etc on a Dell R720 – the details were in a Twitter thread. Until recently, that was sufficient. Today, that thead won’t load.