From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 20:59:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7800106564A for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech@dracoquies.us) Received: from qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8948FC0A for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6keo1h00B0vp7WLAFkmJeK; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:46:18 +0000 Received: from chon.dracoquies.us ([76.113.10.65]) by omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6kmK1h0151QBs3Q8RkmL72; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:46:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=[192.168.101.35]) by chon.dracoquies.us with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QgNMx-0004nv-1C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:46:19 -0600 Message-ID: <4E1B6117.4050809@dracoquies.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:46:15 -0600 From: Sam George User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41EDF508-557C-4582-9E2C-0179BA3FDB7E@gmail.com> <4E159E45.6010204@mullet.se> In-Reply-To: <4E159E45.6010204@mullet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 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: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:59:30 -0000 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 Is LSI's documentation simply out of date or is there some issue with 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