From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Fri Mar 4 21:31:45 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3699DAAE4 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:31:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:80:80::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smarthost.sentex.ca", Issuer "smarthost.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D1FE7EF for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:31:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (lava.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:5::11]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id u24LVhkL031000 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:31:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:5c30:ed1b:e203:c55c] ([IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:5c30:ed1b:e203:c55c]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id u24LVgJd096217; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:31:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Subject: Re: hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough missing? To: Zaphod Beeblebrox , Steven Hartland References: <56D95251.5080800@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-fs From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications Message-ID: <56D9FEB2.9080904@sentex.net> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:31:30 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:31:45 -0000 On 3/4/2016 4:12 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > Since I'm here, what's the opinion on mfip? I have been using it on a couple of boxes with the 9240-8i controller for some time with very good results. You see the disks via cam. In the box below, I use the disks as JBODs for a large ZFS pool. # camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (pass0,da0) at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (pass1,da1) at scbus0 target 10 lun 0 (pass2,da2) at scbus0 target 11 lun 0 (pass3,da3) at scbus0 target 13 lun 0 (pass4,da4) at scbus0 target 15 lun 0 (pass5,da5) at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass6,da6) at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (pass7,da7) at scbus1 target 2 lun 0 (pass8,da8) at scbus1 target 3 lun 0 (pass9,da9) at scbus1 target 4 lun 0 (pass10,da10) at scbus1 target 5 lun 0 (pass11,da11) at scbus1 target 6 lun 0 (pass12,da12) smartctl works too smartctl -a /dev/da0 -d sat smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [FreeBSD 10.3-BETA3 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 Serial Number: WD-WCC4E0911515 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 209be76c0 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Fri Mar 4 16:30:04 2016 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled # mfiutil show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i Serial Number: SP34906493 Firmware: 20.13.1-0208 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 Battery Backup: not present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 0M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 64K ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/