unable to create/delete array from LSI card using megaraid, megarc

[Alfred Bartsch]

javocado schrieb:
> I'm running 6.2-R and have installed linux-megamgr and megarc from
> ports. Both utilities run fine, but neither will allow me to add or
> remove an array from the system (I have to do it via the BIOS
> utility). Relevant parts:
>
> # dmesg |grep amr
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem 0xdf200000-0xdf20ffff irq 72 at
> device 1.0 on pci8
> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID SCSI 320-1> Firmware 1L47, BIOS G121, 64MB RAM
> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
> amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 70006MB (143372288 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
> amrd1: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd1: 140013MB (286746624 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
>
> Is this normal, or do I have a misconfiguration?
>
> Thanks.
This is IMHO some kind of accident control, try

 "# sysctl dev.amr.0.allow_volume_configure=1"
 before starting megarc/linux-megamgr. This should enable changes to the RAID 
configuration (replace 0 with 1 ... if you've got more than one 
MegaRAID-Controller in your server).

HTH
Alfred Bartsch

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