Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:18:49 -0400 From: Jonathan Delgado <delgado@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2 Message-ID: <E7DA7C50-25A8-4811-9A76-F76D71CE1648@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu> In-Reply-To: <758633E9-8CCD-419A-94F1-4259AF3C49B1@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <758633E9-8CCD-419A-94F1-4259AF3C49B1@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu>
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I will also note that it is not an issue of compatibility between
the LSI-provided MegaCli and the Dell PERC5/i. I use the exact same
RPM under SuSE's SLES10 on the same hardware without any problems.
-Jonathan
On Apr 9, 2007, at 3:12 PM, I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers equipped with their
> PERC5/i SAS RAID controller (OEM is LSI). In general they work
> fine. The mfi driver is being used and I get some occassional
> blurbs logged by the driver. I am having poor results though trying
> to get the megacli port (sysutils/linux-megacli) to work with it.
>
> For example, if I call 'megacli -AdpAllInfo -aALL' I get junk/
> empty output like:
> Adapter #0
>
> ======================================================================
> ========
> Versions
> ================
> Product Name :
> Serial No :
> FW Package Build:
> FW Version :
> BIOS Version :
> Ctrl-R Version :
>
> Pending Images In Flash
> ================
> None
>
> PCI Info
> ================
> Vendor Id : 0000
> Device Id : 0000
> SubVendorId : 0000
> SubDeviceId : 0000
>
> Host Interface : UNKOWN
>
> Number of Frontend Port: 0
> Device Interface : UNKOWN
> ...
>
>
> I am getting this result with multiple systems, one running 6.2-
> RELEASE p3, the other a recent (as of today) build of 6.2-STABLE. I
> am using linux_base-fc-4_9 for the Linux compat install, and the
> specific package of megacli is linux-megacli-1.01.09_1. linprocfs
> and linsysfs are both mounted. mfi_linux.ko is loaded. The device
> seems to be recognized within the linux subsystem, as I have:
>
> # cat /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/proc_name
> megaraid_sas
>
> From what I have been able to dig up from past posts to the
> mailing lists: others have been able to get this working fine, but
> I'm not sure if any have been specifically with 6.2 and the PERC5/i
> controller. If anyone has any clues or tips for how to proceed with
> this, it would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --
> Jonathan Delgado, Systems Manager
> Molecular Biology
> Massachusetts General Hospital
>
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