Cisco 12G SAS RAID support (FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE) ?

[Chris Ross]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:20:15PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Chris Ross wrote on 11/05/2019 19:34:
> > Hello.  I have a Cisco UCS C220-M5 with a RAID controller.  It calls itself
> > "Cisco 12G Modular Raid Controller with 2GB cache", PPID UCSC-RAID-M5.
> > Looking at the CIMC, it shows the PCI vendor/device ids 1000:0014, which
> > looks to be an LSI MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3516.  It looks like this should
> > be supported by the mpr(4) driver, but it doesn't seem to recognize it
> > at boot time.
> 
> Do you have mpr_load="YES" in loader.conf?
> Or for ISO booting you can manually load kernel modules at boot prompt.

I dropped to boot prompt in ISO boot, and entered 'mpr_load="YES"'.

I tried "load", but wasn't able to devine how to load the mpr module with
that.  Is that needed, or should 'mpr_load="YES"' have accomplished the
desired result?

          - Chris