From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 12:11:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F0111065676 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@mullet.se) Received: from smtp.mullet.se (smtp.mullet.se [94.247.168.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84408FC29 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from martin-nilssons-macbook-pro-2.local (213-64-247-243-no34.business.telia.com [213.64.247.243]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mullet.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0013F627000B for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E159E45.6010204@mullet.se> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:53:41 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41EDF508-557C-4582-9E2C-0179BA3FDB7E@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41EDF508-557C-4582-9E2C-0179BA3FDB7E@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:11:33 -0000 On 2011-07-04 03.20, Sam Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use an LSI MegaRAID 9260 on FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using mfi and I have two quick questions: > > LSI's MegaRaid SAS documentation [1] states that "Currently, the FreeBSD driver is supported only on 32-bit FreeBSD". On the other hand the FreeBSD 8.2 hardware compatibility page [2] states that the mfi driver supports the MegaRaid 9260 in all three of the i386, ia64, amd64 ports. > > Is LSI's documentation simply out of date or is there some issue with the mfi driver on amd64? There are two different diverged mfi drivers! One that comes with FreeBSD and works well with the 9260 cards both under i386 and amd64. Then we have the LSI driver, this one works under i386 and some versions also works under amd64 but the latest one on LSI:s web is i386 only. The current LSI driver supports the 9240 budget cards "skinny" and also the new fast 9265/9285 cards "Thunderbolt" these are not supported by the FreeBSD driver. /Martin -- Martin Nilsson, CEO, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: martin@mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-59 99 91, Web: www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimised for FreeBSD& Linux