From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 21:14:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8076BDF; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x233.google.com (mail-ie0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6386017A4; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f179.google.com with SMTP id tr6so12146244ieb.24 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:14:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=P/27vXaYHUqyb8M63y1zxnsoTXyDVS+ikX7xeL9Xc3w=; b=YQZ7pGed53MpNICEWnKuR3V7E7umcoV9f9pcZnaK7hRjgJAAeyIqUoU5pGOSUmcSyy rdTm3XIOEv4aiSFZQbMz44+ld5A6y/zkQa0EUKFIT6KSpAPrnVUsYMJrweby6kkN3CWO gk9CAMaUKbpiove8ZlY6/UpGbxnqN3KE0Zrr8WtHznRYZyXqT2xARTLXD+po9WpPqSa/ k+Z5JQmOMH7RkhqodjHwiVyL/Q/em9N6dI/YGUh+hb358V5csD+2X0d6qmLlDQc6Iq2/ PxwhvIIREeycOyN5I2c2+72IFlL7wnhbWhukUcwxxIZgKswkkikHYwvk/m8r7bBtVou5 z20A== X-Received: by 10.50.88.72 with SMTP id be8mr11178022igb.26.1409865241459; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charmander.home ([64.229.13.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z2sm1909327igl.16.2014.09.04.14.14.00 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Mark Johnston Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 17:13:08 -0400 From: Mark Johnston To: "RANDOLPH, DONALD L" Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge R920 w/ Perc H730P Message-ID: <20140904211308.GA60493@charmander.home> References: <20140826184659.GB3131@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20140826191321.GA1526@charmander.home> <20140826192510.GD3131@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20140904182134.GN36287@hub.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: Glen Barber , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:14:02 -0000 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