Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:58:44 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: "jhelfman@e-e.com" <jhelfman@e-e.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KERN - mfi driver for Dell raid h200 on r210 servers Message-ID: <594AAF26-1359-4969-AC89-1C59A12D00E9@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <74e2d52b6ce67708a1bb42955b6370fb.squirrel@mail.experts-exchange.com> References: <AANLkTikfZ_ba4w975Y9pB4inY2xWae2i0253SM=ie-G0@mail.gmail.com> <74e2d52b6ce67708a1bb42955b6370fb.squirrel@mail.experts-exchange.com>
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On 29 Jan 2011, at 19:00, jhelfman@e-e.com wrote:
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>> I'm trying to get FreeBSD 8.0 or 8.1 to run on a Dell poweredge r210
>> server.
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>> It ships with a SATA/SAS h200 RAID controller.
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>> Sadly, the MFI driver doesn't seem to register for this card...
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>> Find below the pciconf -lcvb
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>> --
>> none6@pci0:1:0:0: class=3D0x010700 card=3D0x1f1d1028 chip=3D0x00721=
000
>> rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
>> vendor =3D 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
>> class =3D mass storage
>> subclass =3D SAS
>> bar [10] =3D type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xfc00, size 256, enabled=
>> bar [14] =3D type Memory, range 64, base 0xdf2b0000, size 65536,
>> enabled
>> bar [1c] =3D type Memory, range 64, base 0xdf2c0000, size 262144,
>> enabled
>> cap 01[50] =3D powerspec 3 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
>> cap 10[68] =3D PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(4096) link x8(x8)
>> cap 03[d0] =3D VPD
>> cap 05[a8] =3D MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>> cap 11[c0] =3D MSI-X supports 15 messages in map 0x14
>> --
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>> I have added the following to /usr/src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c at line 119:=
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>> {0x1000, 0x0072, 0x1028, 0x1f1e, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, "Dell PERC H200
>> Integrated"},
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>> Rebuilt the kernel, tried it on the server, still no luck recognizing
>> the RAID card.
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>> As a last resort I'll be setting the drives to passthrough and using a
>> software RAID, but I'd much rather this worked out.
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>> Note that mfi actually recognizes Dell's h700 and h800 cards.
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>> Anyone managed to get the h200 card working yet ?
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>> @hackers: please keep me cc'd, I'm not subscribed to this list.
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>> Regards,
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>> --
>> dfl
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> Hi Damien,
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> I would suspect that you would need to compile the 'mpt' driver to get
> this to work. I found the same issue in the r310, however I already had
> mpt compiled in my kernel for another hardware platform.
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> Good Luck!
> Jason
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Hi,
I'm not sure, afaik mpt comes with GENERIC which is the kernel I put in the m=
fsbsd image I tried to boot, and which failed to properly register any drive=
r for the h200 card.=
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