Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:13:08 -0400 From: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> To: "RANDOLPH, DONALD L" <DR2370@att.com> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge R920 w/ Perc H730P Message-ID: <20140904211308.GA60493@charmander.home> In-Reply-To: <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163E68CB@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com> References: <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163DDFA5@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com> <20140826184659.GB3131@hub.FreeBSD.org> <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163DDFE9@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com> <20140826191321.GA1526@charmander.home> <20140826192510.GD3131@hub.FreeBSD.org> <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163E2AEB@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com> <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163E679D@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com> <20140904182134.GN36287@hub.FreeBSD.org> <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163E6814@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com> <D9316D9083ABED49ADE78C3FA1348BCC163E68CB@MOSTLS1MSGUSRFH.ITServices.sbc.com>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:31:32PM +0000, RANDOLPH, DONALD L wrote: > I modified my approach a little bit. > When trying it on the mini image I first did a load mrsas and it told me it couldn't be found. So I then did a ls boot/kernel. Confirmed the mrsas.ko file was in fact in the directory. > > I did a load /boot/kernel/mrsas.ko and it told me it couldn't load a module before the kernel... so I took the thumbdrive and created a /boot/loader.conf with mrsas_load="YES" and hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1 in it. Now the system is up and running. > > I went back and checked the FreeBSD-10.1-PRERELEASE-amd64-20140902-r270981-memstick.img image with same install approach... creating a /boot/loader.conf and started the install. > > Both installs found the raid as da0 and installed perfectly. Now I have a working installation of FreeBSD. > > So when I did a set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1 on the first attempt on the 10.1-PRERELEASE why didn't the mrsas driver load at boot and detect the raid as da0? It turned out that the hw.mfi.mrsas_enable tunable hadn't been merged to stable/10, so setting it had no effect. I fixed that in r270732, so the r270981 image that you downloaded has it. I've just added mrsas(4) to the kernel. In a few days that change will be merged to stable/10, at which point you won't need to manually load mrsas.ko anymore - setting the tunable will be sufficient. Thanks, -Mark
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