LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver?
Jan Mikkelsen
janm at transactionware.com
Tue Apr 17 02:15:12 UTC 2012
On 17/04/2012, at 2:32 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Jan Mikkelsen writes:
> | On 31/03/2012, at 1:14 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
...
> | > Yes, this card is supported with the mfi(4) in projects/head_mfi. Looks
> | > like we fixed a couple of last minute found bugs when trying to create a
> | > RAID wth mfiutil. This should be fixed now. I'm going to start the
> | > merge to -current today. The version in head_mfi can run on older
> | > versions of FreeBSD with the changes that Sean did.
> |
> | I have just imported the mfi(4) and mfiutil(8) into a 9.0-RELEASE tree to
> | try this out.
> |
> | When booting up with two fresh drives attached, they show up as usable
> | JBOD disks. However, I cannot use mfiutil to create anything with them.
> | Every drive gives
> |
> | "mfiutil: Drive n not available"
>
> You might want to include the output of:
> mfiutil show drives
> and then the command you are trying to do to create a RAID with.
>
> | Is this expected behaviour? How can I create a raid1 volume using
> | mfiutil and clean disks?
>
> I'm not sure if mfiutil can switch disks from JBOD mode to RAID.
> I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. It can't go from RAID to
> real JBOD mode since it doesn't have code to support that.
>
> | I tried using MegaCli from the LSI website (versions 8.02.16 and
> | 8.02.21), but they can't even detect the controller. I know you
> | said at some point that a very recent version of MegaCli was
> | required. What version is necessary?
>
> What was the syntax you used since usage is cryptic? I've never
> seen a MegaCli that couldn't access the card. What I meant by
> more recent MegaCli is earlier versions didn't have the JBOD
> commands in it. I have a 8.00.46 that knows about JBOD.
The MegaCli problem was an embarrassing operator error which I can't blame on the bad UI.
"mfiutil create jbod …" doesn't create a JBOD disk, it creates a raid0 volume. I think that was expected. The biggest problem with this controller and just mfiutil is that you can't get a drive from the JBOD state to the unconfigured-good state, and a blank disk starts in JBOD. So to do any setup you need to resort to the BIOS utility or MegaCli.
For each disk to change from JBOD to "Unconfigured-good" so that it can be used to create a volume, I needed to do:
MegaCli -PDMakeGood -Physdrv '[64:1]' -force -a0
Obviously with the right drivespec. Once they're in this state I can use mfiutil to create volumes.
I can get drives from the unconfigured-good state to JBOD by doing "MegaCli -PDMakeJBOD …".
This is just in a little test machine with a few drives. Now that it is working to this level I will get a server with a 9240 and give it a proper run. I'll also try the driver out in one of the 9261 based servers we've got here.
Thanks!
Jan.
More information about the freebsd-stable
mailing list