Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:46:15 -0600 From: Sam George <tech@dracoquies.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Message-ID: <4E1B6117.4050809@dracoquies.us> In-Reply-To: <4E159E45.6010204@mullet.se> References: <41EDF508-557C-4582-9E2C-0179BA3FDB7E@gmail.com> <4E159E45.6010204@mullet.se>
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On 7/7/2011 05:53, Martin Nilsson wrote: > On 2011-07-04 03.20, Sam Vaughan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to use an LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using mfi and >> I have two quick questions: >> >> LSI's MegaRaid SAS documentation [1] states that "Currently, the >> FreeBSD driver is supported only on 32-bit FreeBSD". On the other hand >> the FreeBSD 8.2 hardware compatibility page [2] states that the mfi >> driver supports the MegaRaid 9260 in all three of the i386, ia64, >> amd64 ports. >> >> Is LSI's documentation simply out of date or is there some issue with >> the mfi driver on amd64? (I joined the list recently so I missed the original message.) I have an LSI 9260 with FreeBSD8.2 on a Xeon system (amd64). It seems to work ok. But it does come up griping about commands timing out occasionally. See this other post of someone else who has the same issue: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/mfi-4-command-timeout-loop-on-boot-on-releng-8-2-tt3963874.html#none I don't know what's going on, but except for the error, it /seems/ to be working. I can still access the array. And eventually it stops complaining. I need to do more testing though before I'll really be satisfied that it's ok. -Sam George > There are two different diverged mfi drivers! > One that comes with FreeBSD and works well with the 9260 cards both > under i386 and amd64. > > Then we have the LSI driver, this one works under i386 and some versions > also works under amd64 but the latest one on LSI:s web is i386 only. The > current LSI driver supports the 9240 budget cards "skinny" and also the > new fast 9265/9285 cards "Thunderbolt" these are not supported by the > FreeBSD driver. > > /Martin
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