Dell 1950 and LSI SAS problems.
Steven Wiltshire
steven at mig15.net
Fri Aug 11 06:05:19 UTC 2006
Hi,
I am experiencing problems with a Dell 1950 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE for
i386.
I recently purchased a Dell 1950 with the understanding it came with a
Dell PERC5/i SAS adapter, and that this adapter was supported by the mfi
driver found in 6.1-RELEASE.
Unfortunately, the FreeBSD installation program does not detect any disk
drives. The boot messages suggests an unidentified SCSI attached mass
storage device was detected during boot, but there's no mention of
anything to do with mfi, SAS, or PERC5/i. The machine is equipped with a
CDROM and a single 73GB SAS drive.
After some investigation I'm not sure if the server is actually equipped
with a Dell PERC 5/i at all.
When booting the computer, the SAS device is mentioned as being a "Dell
SAS 5" and that it's copyrighted by LSI. The controller chip is an LSI
SAS 1068. Again, there is no mention of a PERC5/i anywhere.
I'm not entirely sure if Dell have not provided the hardware we were
expecting, or if something is going wrong with the FreeBSD boot process,
or if I'm doing something wrong - all I know is that I have a server
that doesn't serve.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to FreeBSD related troubleshooting, or
am I best off taking this issue up with Dell?
Cheers,
--Steven
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