FreeBSD 10, ServeRAID M5210e, syspd corruption

[Borja Marcos]

On Feb 14, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote:
>> I am configuring an IBM server with FreeBSD 10-RELEASE, a ServeRAID M5210e and 23 SSD disks.
>> 
> 
> I'm afraid I have no solution to offer you for this issue, but with
> this setup an mps(8) card (LSI SAS2008 and similar) in IT (passthru)
> mode would work excellently.
> 
> Maybe easier to change the card than struggle to get it to do
> something it doesn't want to?

Finally I purchased  an IBM M1015, reflashed it to the latest LSI "IT" firmware, and I'll use the "Invader" card just to boot from the two back mounted disks in mirror.

Indeed, LSI2008 cards are the way to go. Unfortunately, cross-flashing them feels a bit kludgy although admittedly I've done even dirtier stuff :)

Thanks!





Borja.