Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:28 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port: sysutils/megacli waiting to commit Message-ID: <4AFC8A2C.3090005@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <200911101941.nAAJf1kL013914@ambrisko.com> References: <200911101941.nAAJf1kL013914@ambrisko.com>
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Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Miroslav Lachman writes: > | Doug Ambrisko wrote: [...] > | Hi, > | I am little confused by all these MegaRAID utilities available in ports. > | (I am new to LSI MegaRAID). > | > | I have new Dell R610 with PERC6 identified as: > | > | mfi0:<Dell PERC 6> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem > | 0xdf180000-0xdf1bffff,0xdf1c0000-0xdf1fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 > | mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 > | > | What is the recommended tool to monitor (and manage) the state of the > | PERC6 array? > > To monitor, I use syslog :-). I set in loader.conf > hw.mfi.event_class="-2" > so I see everything logged to dmesg/syslog of all events. > > To manage it I use a custom tool but MegaCli should work. > > There is a new tool that was added to freebsd "mfiutil" from Yahoo. Thank you for tip to mfiutil. I upgraded to 7-STABLE where mfiutil is also included and it seems simpler than MegaCli. I hope it will work without problems ;) > | I also found on LSI website, that newer FreeBSD MegaCli is available: > | 5.00.15 > | > | But I don't know if it supports previous HW or not. > > I have yet to see a MegaCli that isn't a super set of the prior. > The API to the firmware has been stable. [...] Miroslav Lachman
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