LSI Internal PCI-Express SAS/SATA HBA, 9211-8I, 8-Port 6Gb/s Controller Card

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So I looked at what options are there in the Linux world to boot into EFI shell (I even tried the Clover Shell which is used to create Hackintosh machines). There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Since the card will be handling operations on the disk, the individual drives you have connected to the HBA card won't be transparently passed through to your host OS. x8 interface which provides sufficient throughput and full-duplex operation for enhanced performance.

LSI 9240-8i and LSI IBM ServeRAID M1015 - Difference between LSI 9240-8i and LSI

The first phase of this current FreeNAS build is going to have 10 HDDs then eventually max out at 20 HDDs (chassis limitation).AM3+/AM3-based (Phenom II X6 1100T, Phenom II X4 960T, and Athlon II X4), 4x AM2+/AM2-based (FX-63, FX-67, A64x2-6200+, A64x2-4400+), 3x S939-based (FX-57, FX-55, A64 2800+), 3x S940-based (FX-51, FX-53, and Dual-Processor Opteron Dual-Core 2. The below chart shows what each LSI HBA controller is capable of, how their ports are configures (ie internal or external), PCIe lanes and generation, what drive connector types and the default firmware mode the HBA ships with. As my servers run Linux (Gentoo) I wanted a card that was reliable under Linux and that had good drivers included in the mainline kernel - I definitely did not want to be stuck into the situation of not being able to upgrade the kernel because of the card's drivers/modules not being compatible with newer versions.

LSI SAS 9211-8i PCI Express to 6Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter

Now over to read your answer and links in the other thread about ZFS and jails/record size/rocket science etc. EFI mode still did not work at all, thats my server's fault though, it just hung at "Initializing the UEFI". Another key benefit is that the LSI HBA lineup tends to be very popular with OEMs such as IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle, Fujitsu, Intel, Supermicro and others, so driver support is generally strong regardless of the OS you are using. But (important): I will be able to flash this card to become the community favorite card LSI 9211-8i (with version P20 - IT mode) to be used in FreeNAS 9.

I’m just wondering if the HP SAS Expander strips any of the features from the LSI 9211-8i that make it more appealing than a LSI 1068e based part. I just found the following in the "README_9211_8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.