Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:36:05 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Management interface for cards powered by the "mfi" driver? Message-ID: <20080618053605.GA27112@FS.denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <20080618050530.GA75831@citylink.fud.org.nz> References: <20080508050550.GA76170@FS.denninger.net> <E1Ju2Rt-000MNF-1k@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <20080617012053.GA82316@FS.denninger.net> <20080618041530.GA81315@FS.denninger.net> <20080618050530.GA75831@citylink.fud.org.nz>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Pete French wrote: > > > > > I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but > > > > > have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long > > > > > while. > > > > > > > > HP P400 cards are PCI express and SAS - they work very well under FreeBSD. > > > > I've also used the cheaper E200 and that appears to be fine too, though I > > > > havent run it for as long as the 400's. > > > > > > > > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/smartarrayp400/index.html > > > > > > > > -pete. > > > > > > > > > > Following upon my own stuff, I just laid hands on a Quad-Xeon machine with an > > > Intel SRCSAS18E card in it, and well, the only way I can describe it is "oh > > > my GOD!" > > > > Ok, another followup! > > > > Is there a mangement interface program for the "mfi" driver somewhere? I > > rooted around in "ports" but didn't find one, nor on the base system. > > > > The Linux ones want to talk to the "amr" driver which is the older LSI Logic > > MegaRAID boards, not the newer ones that the mfi driver talks to. > > > > No management tool = el-sucko, because you can't rebuild a failed disk or > > even shut the alarm on the board off! > > Its sysutils/linux-megacli. Nope. It builds and installs but doesn't work (already tried this one.) Attempting to ask it for the number of boards returns "0". This may have something to do with changes made to the device structure(s) in FreeBSD-7 (I don't have a 6 machine to test on any more) but it definitely does not function. -- Karl Denninger karl@denninger.net
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