From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 12 22:20:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9873A1065670 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570D58FC13 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C86B19E023; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07FAE19E019; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4AFC8A2C.3090005@quip.cz> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:28 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <200911101941.nAAJf1kL013914@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200911101941.nAAJf1kL013914@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port: sysutils/megacli waiting to commit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:33 -0000 Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Miroslav Lachman writes: > | Doug Ambrisko wrote: [...] > | Hi, > | I am little confused by all these MegaRAID utilities available in ports. > | (I am new to LSI MegaRAID). > | > | I have new Dell R610 with PERC6 identified as: > | > | mfi0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem > | 0xdf180000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 > | mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 > | > | What is the recommended tool to monitor (and manage) the state of the > | PERC6 array? > > To monitor, I use syslog :-). I set in loader.conf > hw.mfi.event_class="-2" > so I see everything logged to dmesg/syslog of all events. > > To manage it I use a custom tool but MegaCli should work. > > There is a new tool that was added to freebsd "mfiutil" from Yahoo. Thank you for tip to mfiutil. I upgraded to 7-STABLE where mfiutil is also included and it seems simpler than MegaCli. I hope it will work without problems ;) > | I also found on LSI website, that newer FreeBSD MegaCli is available: > | 5.00.15 > | > | But I don't know if it supports previous HW or not. > > I have yet to see a MegaCli that isn't a super set of the prior. > The API to the firmware has been stable. [...] Miroslav Lachman