Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:31:30 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough missing? Message-ID: <56D9FEB2.9080904@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <CACpH0Me059hpCRDT-nSWVOioerJ2f6EqfpP=W%2BL8Wio8FyHKcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACpH0MdTnED2DbTxBBrsGNJ7ZUdbN=7cY2XGKSRjRBn1gnZPJQ@mail.gmail.com> <56D95251.5080800@multiplay.co.uk> <CACpH0Me059hpCRDT-nSWVOioerJ2f6EqfpP=W%2BL8Wio8FyHKcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/4/2016 4:12 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
>
> Since I'm here, what's the opinion on mfip?
I have been using it on a couple of boxes with the 9240-8i controller
for some time with very good results.
You see the disks via cam. In the box below, I use the disks as JBODs
for a large ZFS pool.
# camcontrol devlist
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80> at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82> at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80> at scbus0 target 10 lun 0 (pass2,da2)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80> at scbus0 target 11 lun 0 (pass3,da3)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82> at scbus0 target 13 lun 0 (pass4,da4)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80> at scbus0 target 15 lun 0 (pass5,da5)
<ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 1L01> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass6,da6)
<ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 1D05> at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (pass7,da7)
<ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 1D05> at scbus1 target 2 lun 0 (pass8,da8)
<ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 0101> at scbus1 target 3 lun 0 (pass9,da9)
<ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 0101> at scbus1 target 4 lun 0 (pass10,da10)
<ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 0101> at scbus1 target 5 lun 0 (pass11,da11)
<ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68E 0A82> at scbus1 target 6 lun 0 (pass12,da12)
smartctl works too
smartctl -a /dev/da0 -d sat
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [FreeBSD 10.3-BETA3 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Red
Device Model: WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number: WD-WCC4E0911515
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 209be76c0
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Mar 4 16:30:04 2016 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
# mfiutil show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
Serial Number: SP34906493
Firmware: 20.13.1-0208
RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10
Battery Backup: not present
NVRAM: 32K
Onboard Memory: 0M
Minimum Stripe: 8K
Maximum Stripe: 64K
---Mike
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Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net
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Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/
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