Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:24:10 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd compatibility and Dell servers Message-ID: <5551F0EA.9080603@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5551F04C.4090603@freebsd.org> References: <DB0774B022E446409787EA29CB3B70AE116E59@server.exchange.local> <5551F04C.4090603@freebsd.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --H6mDC97sMbCDlLhv37GnfKh70BEu8Slte Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/12/15 13:21, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/12/15 11:45, claire.boyer@arcitek.fr wrote: >> The servers are all Dell servers : >> -Dell PowerEdge R730 with one processor E5 v3, 6 cores with Intel netw= ork card : Intel X520, double port, 10 Gb, 1Gbe, DA/SFP+, I350 DP >> -Dell PowerEdge R730 with one processor E5 v3, 4 cores with Intel netw= ork card : Intel X520, double port, 10 Gb, 1Gbe, DA/SFP+, I350 DP >=20 > We're running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE on a R730 quite happily. The only > gotcha we encountered was support for the H730 RAID controller -- this > probes as an mfi(4) device but doesn't work properly (timeouts, IO > failures, probably soon enough that you won't be able to complete > installing the system). You need to set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=3D1 at the= > loader prompt and then in /boot/loader.conf to override it into using > the mrsas(4) driver, after which everything works like a charm. Apologies: the hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=3D"1" setting should go into /boot/device.hints, not /boot/loader.conf Cheers, Matthew --H6mDC97sMbCDlLhv37GnfKh70BEu8Slte Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVUfDqXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxOUYxNTRFQ0JGMTEyRTUwNTQ0RTNGMzAw MDUxM0YxMEUwQTlFNEU3AAoJEABRPxDgqeTnz1AP/RGzOr3/Zbo+KPYXKwr73wF+ N1kH1FQpJGTiRgJVR5HHzVDV6yvpitK13plSBOlQAnV5vnfyupHKpKo9c8fp6eri qZwyy9cvjALFdWw3+2BjSCBKxc6Rl0Ywa0tn77pYGmZYB6IRosRN2Gypy2JJ2R/7 f66iGL3QBZ7LXWkZrTocROBDnzsMedCRvmg9h5rgOm5gdj/SWyok6XISNtuZAv+F n7Vx9rbP7qVL1mQ0t2SQHWdcSJs8CwIhUpBfgUkpBvVsVyW3uewl4cX5JlNKB1sL GvkQF2vbEPSsPp8MqcDZz8bMErN/kdRK5XrA7ZDbpji5hEYLQ97Nr1Ot663k9au8 WPNnStr4pjOcG86HFjKF7G4dwjU7/IP/6Zrl90ph4u4gdNPsyaX6Cil5TqCQJW5P vXyFp+htMc2htjr15WUlknSjuyOD4iPiI45mo1rUW3ELk8s8quobi60bqeFYvJD6 3WuaDJTED0MSxa8xRw8pGhziSLIC3w8+rtU5bqgNq3Dr1CmcIC5WRHQoCviwM6eu iJuyoO6Op/jLtPChb9IZtRi9IqodaqcrIe9JCnxDru+cLpMwGelqOMU+U5zuX3/E XGwMibsogQa9gwgwhmA/Nx0dyO+B+xaFUjkhKZ0fXbq515XGHfpzz1AE/ElrIsVe SIcy8dG14LTgzJqTxxQP =mZrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H6mDC97sMbCDlLhv37GnfKh70BEu8Slte--
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