(Different card depicted for illustrative purposes.)
[Edit: Oops! I originally called the card 2108-8e, but it’s really called 9280-8e — 2108 is apparently what it’s called in BIOS, but not the actual model name.]
Some months back, my MegaRAID card (used for this) died, and I bought a new old one. But it came with a too-new firmware — I want to spin down the disks (because I’m using this to watch movies, and 98% of the time they’re idle), and that stopped working in some firmware version or other.
That is, if you try to spin down the “logical drives”, it says this:
/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -LDSetPowerPolicy -Maximum -L0 -a0 Adapter does not support Power savings on logical drives. Exit Code: 0x01
Now, LSI was bought by some other company, who was then bought by somebody, and they’re now owned by (*shiver*) Broadcom. They helpfully have older firmware versions on ftp, but none of those are old enough.
That is, the oldest one there is 12.9.0-0038, and that is too new (it’s from March 2010). So I need either a card with an even earlier firmware where that command works? I’ll pay! Lots of money!
Or if somebody has squirreled away earlier firmware versions, I would love to get get a copy and test it to see if it’s old enough.
For reference, the files are called things like 12.9.0-0038_SAS_FW_Image_APP-2.90.03-0933_9280-4i4e-8e.zip.
And the card I’m looking for identifies itself as 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 03)
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*crosses fingers*
If I can’t find old firmware, I think I have to start looking at a brand new solution for all of this, and I really don’t want to.