LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller

[Steven Hartland]

Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf:
hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"

     Regards
     Steve

On 02/02/2016 17:06, Zara Kanaeva wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have one Fujitsu server with LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller. These LSI 
> SAS 3108 RAID Controller is supported by the mpr driver 
> (https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html).
> If I try to install the FreeBSD-stable 10.0 or FreeBSD-current 11.0 on 
> this server I can make partitions, but I can not write install files 
> on the disks (better to say RAID5 virtual drive) without errors.
> The erorrs are:
> mfi0 failed to get command
> mfi0: COMMAND ... TIMEOUT AFTER  ... SECONDS
>
> By the installations I see my virtual drive as device with mfi0 as 
> identifier.
>
> My questions are:
> 1) Why I see the virtual drive as device with mfi0 as identifier. I 
> would expect that my virtual drive has identifier mpr0 or something 
> like this.
> 2) Why I can install FreeBSD on one of the disks connected to LSI SAS 
> 3108 RAID Controller, if the disks do not build any virtual drive (no 
> matter which RAID level). Is that possible because mpr driver supports 
> the LSI SAS 3108 RAID Controller as SCSI Controller and not as RAID 
> Controller (see Kernel configuration)?
>
> Thanks in advance, Z. Kanaeva.
>