mfi freebsd7
Brian A. Seklecki
bseklecki at collaborativefusion.com
Tue Jun 3 01:35:36 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 19:31 -0400, kalin m wrote:
> sorry for the double posting.... just to update:
Talk to to your local Dell flunky -- they bought into that LSI/QLogic
chipset knowing full well that LSI/QLogic's business model was not F/OSS
friendly.
~BAS
> i installed also the linux-megamgr same result:
> Failed to open driver node /dev/megadev0
>
> after linking megadev0 to mfi0 it can not see the version... it gets
> more and more pathetic by the minute...
>
>
>
>
>
> kalin m wrote:
> > thanks Vince... i didnt wanted to install the linux base because a
> > lot of kids will be running some 'cool' boards or blogs that probably
> > have cool linux holes too. but just for the hell of it and for he
> > purpose to get to the controller i did. it took a while to find the
> > Linux_MegaCli_1.01.09.zip. it's not on the freebsd site and not on the
> > LSI site (anymore) either.. anyway after a lot of rpm downloads and
> > patching and variable changing and fs mountings i get this:
> >
> > # /usr/local/sbin/megacli -adpCount
> > ERROR:Could not detect controller.
> >
> > Controller Count: 0.
> >
> >
> > pretty neat system...
> >
> >
> > now what?!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Vince Hoffman wrote:
> >> kalin m wrote:
> >>> megarc, right... read about it.. here:
> >>>
> >>> # megarc -AllAdpInfo help
> >>> usage :
> >>> cmd -AllAdpInfo
> >>> : prints info of all cards
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ..... ok .....
> >>>
> >>> # megarc -AllAdpInfo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> **********************************************************************
> >>> MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration
> >>> Utility(FreeBSD)-1.04(03-02-2005) By LSI Logic Corp.,USA
> >>>
> >>> **********************************************************************
> >>> [Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify
> >>> Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel,
> >>> Id=Target)]
> >>>
> >>> Type ? as command line arg for help
> >>>
> >>> No Adapters Found Error: No MegaRaid Found
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ?!?!?! does that mean that there is no raid? why then the df
> >>> output? the machine is supposed to have 4 250gig SAS drives.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Its more likely that megarc doesnt support the newer controllers
> >> which is a shame. you might have more luck with
> >> sysutils/linux-megacli since that explicitly mentions LSI MegaRAID
> >> SAS, I wish they would make the util open source though. Will mean
> >> you need the linux-base port installed and linux.ko loaded.
> >>
> >> A RAID1 config shoudl suit a busy webserver well.
> >>
> >> Vicne
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> thanks...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Vince Hoffman wrote:
> >>>> kalin m wrote:
> >>>>> hi all...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a hosting facility build a new dedicated server for me and looking
> >>>>> at the dmesg i see:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> mfi0: <LSI MegaSAS 1078> port 0xec00-0xecff mem
> >>>>> 0xfc480000-0xfc4bffff,0xfc440000-0xfc47ffff irq 16 at device 0.0
> >>>>> on pci1
> >>>>> mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 2.00
> >>>>>
> >>>>> for df i get:
> >>>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> >>>>> /dev/mfid0s1a 496M 197M 259M 43% /
> >>>>> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> >>>>> /dev/mfid0s1e 496M 12K 456M 0% /tmp
> >>>>> /dev/mfid0s1f 661G 636M 608G 0% /usr
> >>>>> /dev/mfid0s1d 8.7G 1.4M 8.0G 0% /var
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i asked for raid1. i cant find too much information about the mfi
> >>>>> driver. just that it works with freebsd 7.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> you might want to look at sysutils/megarc and possibly
> >>>> sysutils/linux-megamgr so you can more closely monitor/investigate
> >>>> your array.
> >>>>
> >>>> Vince
> >>>>
> >>>>> i'll keep looking but - has anybody successfully deployed
> >>>>> production servers using the LSI MegaSAS 1078 in RAID1 on a very
> >>>>> busy web server?
> >>>>> is there any loss in performance using that hardware in RAID1?
> >>>>> any performance loss in RAID1 at all?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thanks...
> >>>>>
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