LSI SAS 2008 (mfi) on SuperMicro X8SI6-F

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 13:11:33 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 2/17/11 12:10 PM, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:07:17PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> >> It looks rather unhappy:
> >>
> >> mybsd root  /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools
> >>                                                                  #
> >> /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/da0
> >> smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 amd64] (local build)
> >> Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> >>
> >> /dev/da0: No such file or directory
> >> Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
> > 
> > Thanx for the test and the quick reply! I'm really getting crazy on 
> > this. All the SAS controllers seems to have nifty RAID features and 
> > stuff... *sigh*
> > 
> > Thanx again,
> > 		Oliver
> > 
> 
> What is sad is that these controllers are becoming very mainstream now,
> we're getting them more and more on Dell servers , and the fbsd project
> still struggles with them (for reasons I don't know, might be LSI's
> fault, might be a lack of resources or interest...)

LSI has actually been working on the driver, and has almost completed their
version of it.  It will go into FreeBSD in the near future.  In the mean
time I have merged the mps(4) driver into -stable.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken at FreeBSD.ORG