Dell Poweredge 2950 w/ PERC 6 from FreeBSD 6.3-RC2 -> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE?

Peter J. Blowers PBlowers at safarivideonetworks.com
Mon Jan 14 14:05:36 PST 2008


On Jan 14, 2008, at 3:41 PM, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Monday 14 January 2008 10:11:07 am Peter J. Blowers wrote:
>> FreeBSD 6.3 will boot on our PERC 6 machine, but 6.2 won't recognize
>> the mfi device.  Just backporting the mfi.ko appears to be
>> insufficient.  Has anyone done this?  Any hints as to what else might
>> be needed?
>
> For just PERC6 support, backporting sys/dev/mfi/* should be  
> sufficient.
>

That's what I thought, but it didn't work.  Though this was perhaps  
not all
necessary, I got it working by backporting
/sys/dev/mfi/*
/sys/dev/mpt/*
/sys/cam/*
/sys/sys/_sx.h
/sys/sys/lock_profile.h
/sys/bus.h


Peter J. Blowers


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