Dell PowerEdge R920 w/ Perc H730P

RANDOLPH, DONALD L DR2370 at att.com
Tue Aug 26 19:17:58 UTC 2014


Ok when I try this... after I enter load mrsas it tells me 'can't find mrsas'.  
So is the driver not included in the installer kernel?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 07:02:09PM +0000, RANDOLPH, DONALD L wrote:
>> At the loader(8) prompt, try:
>> 
>>     set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
>>     boot
>> 
>> There is an overlap between some mfi(4) drivers and the mrsas(4) driver,
>> and the mfi(4) probe happens first.
>> 
> 
> The install failed using the method below.  While extracting the archives I get an mfi command failed... then a series of mfi0: COMMAND 0xfffffe0001fcf388 timeout after 76 seconds... and it keeps incrementing from there.
> 
> Should the drive still show up as mfid0 during install?  I was expecting to see mrsasd0 or something of that sort.
> 

Perhaps try unloading the mfi(4) driver, too.

    set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
    unload mfi
    load mrsas
    boot

Glen



More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list