hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough missing?

Zaphod Beeblebrox zbeeble at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 21:12:33 UTC 2016


OK.  Good call on mfip ---> but where's the documentation on mfip?

mrsas is not an option as this is a 1078 based card (not supported AFAICT
by mrsas).

Since I'm here, what's the opinion on mfip?


On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
wrote:

> Do you have the mfip module loaded? This is separate from mfi.
>
> If you want direct drives you may be better off using mrsas by adding the
> following to /boot/loader.conf:
> hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"
>
>
> On 04/03/2016 00:51, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
>
>> so... I see in my source (10.2-STABLE):
>>
>> static int mfi_allow_disks = 0;
>> TUNABLE_INT("hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough", &mfi_allow_disks);
>> SYSCTL_INT(_hw_mfi, OID_AUTO, allow_cam_disk_passthrough, CTLFLAG_RD,
>>      &mfi_allow_disks, 0, "event message locale");
>>
>> ... sysctl hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough:
>>
>> [1:6:306]root at virtual:~> sysctl hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough
>> sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough': No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> even though this is a generic kernel that contains mfi and the card in
>> question probes up just fine.
>>
>> What gives?
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