freebsd compatibility and Dell servers

[Matthew Seaman]

On 05/12/15 13:21, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 05/12/15 11:45, claire.boyer at arcitek.fr wrote:
>> The servers are all Dell servers :
>> -Dell PowerEdge R730 with one processor E5 v3, 6 cores with Intel network card : Intel X520, double port, 10 Gb, 1Gbe, DA/SFP+, I350 DP
>> -Dell PowerEdge R730 with one processor E5 v3, 4 cores with Intel network card : Intel X520, double port, 10 Gb, 1Gbe, DA/SFP+, I350 DP
> 
> We're running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE on a R730 quite happily.  The only
> gotcha we encountered was support for the H730 RAID controller -- this
> probes as an mfi(4) device but doesn't work properly (timeouts, IO
> failures, probably soon enough that you won't be able to complete
> installing the system).  You need to set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1 at the
> loader prompt and then in /boot/loader.conf to override it into using
> the mrsas(4) driver, after which everything works like a charm.

Apologies: the hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1" setting should go into
/boot/device.hints, not /boot/loader.conf

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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