From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 8 09:15:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2379CB; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E6A20E7; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:15:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.97.5 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 35075517; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:15:22 +0700 Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r989FLqI004196; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:15:21 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r989FLsg004195; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:15:21 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:15:21 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mpt problem on a Supermicro motherboard (FreeBSD 9.2 amd64) Message-ID: <20131008091521.GB4094@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Justin Gibbs , Scott Long X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:15:25 -0000 Colleagues, I have several Supermicro-based servers with the mpt RAID adapter: # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: UNUSED Board Assembly: Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: none # The problem is, I cannot configure any RAIDs (please see output below) from FreeBSD. If I configure volumes from BIOS setup, FreeBSD still sees them as separate physical discs. What am I doing wrong? I cannot use gmirror with these servers because a) if no MPT RAID is configured in BIOS setup, it cannot boot from HDD and b) if an MPT RAID *is* configured in BIOS setup, it occupies the last sector and prevents GEOM from working with these drives. Any help please? (or redirect me to a more appropriate maillist). # mptutil clear Are you sure you wish to clear the configuration on mpt0? [y/N] y mpt0: Configuration cleared # mptutil show volumes mpt0 Volumes: Id Size Level Stripe State Write-Cache Name # mptutil show drives mpt0 Physical Drives: da0 ( 558G) ONLINE SCSI-6 bus 0 id 0 da1 ( 558G) ONLINE SCSI-6 bus 0 id 1 da2 ( 558G) ONLINE SCSI-6 bus 0 id 2 da3 ( 558G) ONLINE SCSI-6 bus 0 id 3 # # mptutil create raid1 -v da2,da3 mptutil: Reading config page header failed: Invalid configuration page Added drive da2 with PhysDiskNum 0 mptutil: Reading config page header failed: Invalid configuration page # # mptutil show volumes mpt0 Volumes: Id Size Level Stripe State Write-Cache Name # -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru