From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 15:52:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A4E106566B for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:52:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samflanker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2DF8FC20 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so11045400bwz.3 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:52:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sSavtq0afyL8dNssgDJ0XDNC2JODAkjBQja7LX+ucHI=; b=tZfmZWzer5dPgCxTgUzv2Oce+FYcHvsHPgdfNKtF4NYQukEtoqcs+3EYSFgjcCid7O EidQT0toteILu7PiCFLnSzAfhPhhPNnmU0AbrXm7zC6lMDj7KNCqaYR71AbNjZG37oGi 2A1LOb8DRdzHvhqti9Idej7eIZGxlSPvWml2I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dG/pS0f96e9zEkInFaDKtyiIbbZKZFuaTRyPQqmZrkICoZo+89xYWhBcRKnRn+vZ+Z XYMDGcWccMH9cjubGyxc+f9X2hVaOeyaPdDRbiyaacxKYg12YfikGETImah8t52n3zOG AXPD491PxCbpsVJIlncw6cWxFinwNo4mTxHuc= Received: by 10.204.2.211 with SMTP id 19mr2204402bkk.6.1262791485228; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([213.152.137.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm6271496bwz.4.2010.01.06.07.24.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:24:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B44AB4E.5080805@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:25:02 +0300 From: Vladimir Ermakov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: how to create pass devices without reboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:52:51 -0000 Hi, All! my problem need access to harddisks over hw raid controller (smartmontools working with disks over /dev/pass* devices) i am using `mfi` driver for LSI MegaRAID controller, and kernel without `mfip` module # uname -a FreeBSD DAMASCUS 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Mon Jan 4 13:22:16 CET 2010 root@damascus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DAMASCUS amd64 # grep mfip /sys/conf/NOTES device mfip # LSI MegaRAID SAS passthrough, requires CAM # kldload mfip # kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 4 0xffffffff80100000 6f0d78 kernel 2 1 0xffffffff80a22000 b84 mfip.ko # dmesg | grep mfip mfip0: on mfi0 # ls /dev/pass* ls: /dev/pass*: No such file or directory need create pass devices without reboot please any solutions ? P.S. after reboot system (`mfip` load on boot ) have pass* devices # ls /dev/pass* /dev/pass0 /dev/pass2 /dev/pass4 /dev/pass6 /dev/pass1 /dev/pass3 /dev/pass5 /venom