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Date:      Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:41:22 -0800
From:      Motty <motty.cruz@gmail.com>
To:        krad <kraduk@gmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /dev/da* getting /dev/pass* instead
Message-ID:  <563D2C92.5020905@gmail.com>
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Thanks all,
The jbod is a PROMISE; The controller card is an Adaptec AIC-9410W 
BQXB734. I apologize for the confusion. After spending a couple of hours 
trying to troubleshoot this issue, I decided to give up, luckily for me 
I had LSI card available that once installed on the FreeBSD machine was 
able to see all the hard drivers on the Promise.

Thanks, you all.
-Motty

On 11/06/2015 04:10 AM, krad wrote:
> LSI cards often have a R and a T firmware, one for raid and one for HBA,
> you might want to put the hba firmware on the card and present the drives
> native. Unfortunately I cant find much about the PROMISE 2U-SAS-12-D2 BP
> 0107, LSI card but it will be worth inspecting the actual board as it may
> give more clues.
>
>
>
> On 5 November 2015 at 21:59, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:34:43 -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
>>> Polytropon wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> You can see the the devices being connected to the SCSI bus
>>>> (even if it's not "real SCSI") properly, but the "da" driver
>>>> has not been loaded for them. The reason? Maybe the controller
>>>> you're using, "PROMISE 2U-SAS-12-D2 BP 0107, LSI card" (as
>>>> you wrote) is not configured to represent the devices as
>>>> "normal" hard disks to the operating system?
>>> I don't know this controller, but I have seen a few lately that in the
>>> firmware/BIOS for the controller you would configure each drive as a
>> RAID 0
>>> SINGLE. Then they show up as a /dev node the way you'd expect.
>> Yes - it's worth examining the configuration of the controller
>> (firmware settings) to make sure the attached disks are really
>> "relayed 1:1". Depending on the actual hardware, this might
>> involve individual settings, or it's just a "global JBOD switch". :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Polytropon
>> Magdeburg, Germany
>> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
>> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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