FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200

[Karl Dunn]

I got a Dell T110-II server on 2013-July-19.  It has two 1Tbyte drives 
that the PERC H200 controls, RAID 1.  I tried to install 
FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE from a DVD from FreebsdMall.  The autopart segfaulted, 
evidently because it could not find any disks.  I think there is a PR 
about the segfaulting (bad bug, no messages).

I worked around the problem by going to the loader prompt when the initial 
boot choice screen came up; it's option 2.  I gave the commands:

   load mps.ko
   boot

Install went fine.  I had to create (last bsdinstall screen, shell option) 
the file /boot/loader.conf, containing the single line:

   mps_load="YES"

The system boots, and seems to be OK.

The 9.1-Release kernel does not contain the mps module, so the above 
installs it, and the probe finds it as it should.

I hope this helps.

Karl Dunn
kdunn at acm.org

For reference, this message was the last of a thread posted 2012-May-21:

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:27:50 -0500
> From: Efra?n D?ctor <efraindector at motumweb.com>
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.net>
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> From: Ollivier Robert
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:53 AM
> To: Efra??n D??ctor
> Cc: Ollivier Robert ; <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
> 
> 
> Le 21 mai 2012 ?? 16:51, Efra??n D??ctor <efraindector at motumweb.com> a 
> ??crit
> > Thanks for your answer, does anyone know if FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is
> > compatible with PERC H200?.
> 
> It has been merge to stable/8 after 8.2-RELEASE so yes, mpt in 8.3 should
> work
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> 
> Cool, I'll give it a try. Thank you so much.