If you see the banner and are prompted for the utility, it means the BIOS has detected the HBA card.
The probe-scsi-all command displays the SCSI devices that are connected to the host, as shown in the following example.
{0} ok probe-scsi-all /pci@0/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/pci@a/LSI,sas@0 MPT Version 2.00, Firmware Version 4.00.00.00 Target 9 Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G0603 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000c5000b305b4d PhyNum 0 Target a Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G0603 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000c5000b304cad PhyNum 1 Target b Unit 0 Disk HITACHI H101414SCSUN146GSA23 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000cca000310015 PhyNum 2 Target c Unit 0 Disk HITACHI H101414SCSUN146GSA23 286739329 Blocks, 146 GB SASAddress 5000cca0002cf035 PhyNum 3 {0} ok
This example shows a SAS 2 controller (LSI,sas@0) connected to four physical drives.
For more information about the different FCode commands that you can use to create RAID volumes, see Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment .
For more information about creating volumes through the BIOS utility, see Creating a Bootable Drive in a Preboot Environment .
Issuing the sas2ircu command, with no options, produces a list of SAS2IRCU utility commands that you can use to create RAID volumes for the HBA. Upon reviewing the list of commands, use the appropriate commands to create the RAID volumes.
For more information about the RAID configuration utilities, see Installing the RAID Configuration Utility.
After you initiate the creation of a RAID 1 or RAID 10 volume, the HBA performs a background initialization task that synchronizes untouched blocks of each side of the mirror for the entire volume. This background task operates transparently, and does not prevent normal communication with the volume or immediate mirroring of new data written to the volume. However, applications might experience performance degradation until the background initialization task is complete.