Dell 1950 and LSI SAS problems.

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 11 August 2006 02:05, Steven Wiltshire wrote:
> 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?

This might be an mpt(4) controller if it's not RAID.  I would try a recent 
6.1-STABLE snapshot.

-- 
John Baldwin