i386/100160: [mfid] Perc5i: additional symptomatic info on virtual disk detection issue

[Doug Ambrisko]

Jeffrey Williams writes:
| I don't know if anyone specifically is working on this, but just tried 
| to install FreeBSD 6.1 from CD on a Dell 2950 with the PERC 5/i SAS 
| controller.
| 
| This server was originally configured with two hardware RAID virual 
| disks, the first was RAID 1 with two 36GB drives, and the second was 
| RAID 5 with three 72 GB drives.
| 
| Just like the original PR, the first was detected and identified in the 
| the installer volume setup as both mfid0 and mfid1.
| 
| In order to try and work around the problem and just get the machine up 
| and running, I tried deleting the RAID 1 virtual disk with the intention 
| of installing everything to the RAID 5 virtual disk, however, with the 
| first virtual disk removed, no drives where detected at all.
| 
| Next I will be trying removing the physical drives original used in the 
| RAID 1 virtual disk, and re-initializing the RAID 5 array.  I will 
| provide an update if successful.
| 
| In the meantime if anybody else is aware of another work around of fix 
| for this, I appreciate hearing about it.  If a patch comes out soon, I 
| will be happy to provide testing, but I have a small window as this 
| server was being implemented as an emergency replacement for another server.

Upgrade the mfi driver to -stable.

Doug A.