the following is a copy/paste from an internet archive page, copied here for convenience: Compact Steps (Using ONLY MEGAREC3 and MEGACLI in DOS) (These instructions will allow you to flash a Dell H330 Raid card to a HBA330 Card with IT HBA firmware without using Windows, using only DOS tools) Steps:1. Using the same files I included…

there are several approaches to this, some people say to go with a snapshot-replicate method, other people go with a snapshot – zfs send recieve method. the wrong way to do it is anything that leaves the server: over the network from a fileshare, or using Rsync. the first thing to understand is what a…

I recently bought a SAS controller card for my FreeNAS computer. Since my onboard motherboard controller was maxed out at 3 drives, I needed something for expansion. I chose a LSI 9217-8i controller as it was well recommended on the blogs around the internet, and had great support for BSD based OS’s. Only problem was…