LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

[Damien Fleuriot]

Hi,


mps0 at pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x010700 card=0x1f1d1028 chip=0x00721000
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = SAS
    bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xfc00, size 256, enabled
    bar   [14] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xdf2b0000, size 65536, enabled
    bar   [1c] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xdf2c0000, size 262144,
enabled
    cap 01[50] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
    cap 10[68] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(4096) link x8(x8)
    cap 03[d0] = VPD
    cap 05[a8] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
    cap 11[c0] = MSI-X supports 15 messages in map 0x14 enabled
ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
ecap 0004[138] = unknown 1


This is on a h200 card from dell using LSI 2008 on FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 amd64.

Now, the documentation is FAR from finished but you may see a draft here:
http://my.gd/bsd.htm


What you want to do is :
- delete your logical volume on the RAID controller
- boot an MFSBSD image preloaded with a kernel containing the mps(4)
module from 9.0.
- this will present you the disks as /dev/da0 and /dev/da1
- setup a software mirror from there

If you like, you may mail me the network configuration you'd like to get
to be able to reach the host (MAC address of the NIC, IP address, mask,
gateway, nameserver) and your public ssh key, and I'll generate you a
MFSBSD 8.2-RC3 image preloaded with mps(4).

You then boot it via PXE or inject it (install linux, download image,
inject using dd).


On 2/16/11 4:48 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> are there any success stories with using SuperMicro LSI SAS with stable/8 ? 
> 
> I tried mfi drivers sources from LSI site (had to add one #include to make 
> kdump compilation happy) with no success
> 
> pciconf info is
> 
> none at pci0:0:2:0:    class=0x010700 card=0x00721000 chip=0x00721000
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Login, NCR)'
>     class      = mass storage
>     subclass   = SAS
> 
> Thanks in advance!
>