From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Feb 2 17:12:36 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 AA84EA99BAF; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:12:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zara.kanaeva@ggi.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from mx09.uni-tuebingen.de (mx09.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.5.219]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtpserv.uni-tuebingen.de", Issuer "Global-UNITUE-CA 01" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46B1A1C99; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:12:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zara.kanaeva@ggi.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from webmail2.uni-tuebingen.de (webmail2.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.5.195]) by mx09.uni-tuebingen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id u12H6XH6013302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:06:33 +0100 Received: from webmail2.uni-tuebingen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail2.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44F1492CB2; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:06:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from roceehbwz.rue23.uni-tuebingen.de (roceehbwz.rue23.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.216.135]) by webmail.uni-tuebingen.de (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:06:33 +0100 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:06:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20160202180633.Horde.XX1o8RUHQB-jhWuJls7E7KO@webmail.uni-tuebingen.de> From: Zara Kanaeva To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller User-Agent: Horde Application Framework 5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:12:44 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:12:36 -0000 Dear list, I have one Fujitsu server with LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller. These LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller is supported by the mpr driver (https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html). If I try to install the FreeBSD-stable 10.0 or FreeBSD-current 11.0 on this server I can make partitions, but I can not write install files on the disks (better to say RAID5 virtual drive) without errors. The erorrs are: mfi0 failed to get command mfi0: COMMAND ... TIMEOUT AFTER ... SECONDS By the installations I see my virtual drive as device with mfi0 as identifier. My questions are: 1) Why I see the virtual drive as device with mfi0 as identifier. I would expect that my virtual drive has identifier mpr0 or something like this. 2) Why I can install FreeBSD on one of the disks connected to LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller, if the disks do not build any virtual drive (no matter which RAID level). Is that possible because mpr driver supports the LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller as SCSI Controller and not as RAID Controller (see Kernel configuration)? Thanks in advance, Z. Kanaeva. -- Dipl.-Inf. Zara Kanaeva Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Forschungsstelle "The role of culture in early expansions of humans" an der Universität Tübingen Geographisches Institut Universität Tübingen Ruemelinstr. 19-23 72070 Tuebingen Tel.: +49-(0)7071-2972132 e-mail: zara.kanaeva@geographie.uni-tuebingen.de ------- - Theory is when you know something but it doesn't work. - Practice is when something works but you don't know why. - Usually we combine theory and practice: Nothing works and we don't know why.