Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:23:09 +0000 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller Message-ID: <56B0E5FD.90201@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20160202180633.Horde.XX1o8RUHQB-jhWuJls7E7KO@webmail.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <20160202180633.Horde.XX1o8RUHQB-jhWuJls7E7KO@webmail.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"
Regards
Steve
On 02/02/2016 17:06, Zara Kanaeva wrote:
> 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.
>
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