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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:10:34 +0100
From:      Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
To:        Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
Cc:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS on Hardware RAID
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> On 22 Jan 2019, at 12:52, Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> wrote:
>=20
> HBA mode: when the card is in IT mode *or* it does expose the actual =
targets to the CAM layer. In the past I did it
> by manually patching the drivers and I=E2=80=99ve kept systems running =
smoothly for many years despite using IR cards.=20
> Currently you can use hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough tunable to =
achieve the same effect without ugly tinkering.=20

This is what I did long ago to have IR cards expose the targets to the =
CAM layer. It was a suggestion from
Scott Long. I first did it with AAC cards, later with MFI ones.=20

=
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2007-October/003223.html

Some years ago the =E2=80=9Crecipe=E2=80=9D was made official (although =
not encouraged) by adding the=20
hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough tunable.

Doing this I didn=E2=80=99t need to create volumes or anything. Just =
plug the disks and avoid to configure
anything for them on the RAID controller. The disks appeared as =E2=80=9Cd=
a=E2=80=9D devices and I could
hot plug them and use the CAM commands without any issues.=20





Borja.





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