From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 3 17:35:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFBA16A416 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcook@poklib.org) Received: from c.mx.poklib.org (c.mx.poklib.org [64.72.87.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7FB43D53 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:35:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bcook@poklib.org) Received: from node-249.adriance.poklib.org ([192.168.1.249]:54280 helo=mail.poklib.org) by c.mx.poklib.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gg2wf-0009vO-Dw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:35:09 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.218] by mail.poklib.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63; FreeBSD) (envelope-from ) id 1Gg2wf-000K7M-0b for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:35:09 -0500 X-BSD-Virus-Check: ClamAV 0.88.4/2158 on c.mx.poklib.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:35:09 -0500 Message-ID: <454B7DCC.4080104@poklib.org> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:35:08 -0500 From: "B. Cook" Organization: Adriance Memorial Library User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <15E9811B1FA2534EA2284DC97EF9E79F06C1E561@THN-EXCLS1.dc1.doubleclick.corp> In-Reply-To: <15E9811B1FA2534EA2284DC97EF9E79F06C1E561@THN-EXCLS1.dc1.doubleclick.corp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RcvHost: [192.168.1.218] X-RcvFor: X-Auth-Id: X-AntiVirus: No Virus Found X-MIME-Character-set: ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 & Dell 2950 PERC 5/i mfi question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:35:14 -0000 Krempasky, Mark wrote: > Hi, > We have a requirement to run FreeBSD 5.5 on a few Dell 2950's. > Unfortunately FreeBSD5.5 doesn't have the mfi drivers for the PERCK 5/I > controllers. Does anyone know of a reasonable work around to load the > drivers before sysinstall and then a way to permanently install them > after the OS is loaded? > I know FreeBSD6.x has the drivers by default but I just wanted to check > if there was an easy work around with 5.5 before I push back on the > developers. > > Thanks a ton. > [/usr/src]$ 5 > find . -name mfi ./sys/dev/mfi ./sys/modules/mfi [/boot/kernel]$ 9 > ls -l /boot/kernel/mfi.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28597 Nov 2 14:07 /boot/kernel/mfi.ko I would try and build the module and load it that way.. (the driver does support the card fully in 6.1.. ) bcook@Webster [~]$ 2 > dmesg | grep mfi mfi0: mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xfc6e0000-0xfc6fffff irq 142 at device 14.0 on pci2 mfid0: on mfi0 mfid0: 456191MB (934281215 sectors) RAID Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a (6 160GB drives in a raid 10 fwiw)