Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:28:24 -0700 From: Jean Christofferson <jeanc@relevantpower.com> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 8.3 stable or 9.0 stable amd64 iso with mfi driver changes of May 18, 2012 Message-ID: <42AFA0AC-8353-4295-9774-4CDFEA48CAAE@relevantpower.com> In-Reply-To: <20120915011457.GA85921@neutralgood.org> References: <6B7BBB56-5573-438A-97EB-0C27F1F7C4F1@relevantpower.com> <20120915011457.GA85921@neutralgood.org>
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Kevin, Thank you for your response. It is great to get confirmation and I will try with 9.1-RC1 I DO have on board Broadcom 5720 NIC. Nice to know what my next problem is likely to be. Hopefully that will be easy to solve if I install another NIC card. Thanks! Jean Jean Christofferson jeanc@relevantpower.com Relevant Power, Inc. www.relevanttools.com On Sep 14, 2012, at 6:14 PM, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:45:49PM -0700, Jean Christofferson wrote: >> I am trying to install FreeBSD stable - either 8.3 or 9.0 - on a >> Dell >> 420 with Perc H310 LSI PCI Express SAS Raid controllers. >> >> Although the physical disks are present and recognized by the BIOS >> the >> sysinstall does not see the disks. I think the issue is mfi driver >> and was added to the stable release May 18, 2012. > > Yup, the 12G machines came out when the paint was drying on 8.3. So > there > isn't a -stable release with the updated driver. > > The new mfi driver is in 9.1-RC1 if you are OK with a pre-release. > > I hope you don't have the Broadcom 5720 NIC like the R620. The FreeBSD > driver (bge) isn't finished yet. At least, I don't remember seeing > it go > into the tree. It's known to _not_ work on the R620 and I believe > R720. > -- > Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/ > ~kpn/ > > "Nonbelievers found it difficult to defend their position in \ > the presense of a working computer." -- a DEC Jensen paper >
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