From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 23:41:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5617106566C for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:41:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jusher71@yahoo.com) Received: from nm33-vm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm33-vm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.229.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 466358FC17 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.57] by nm33.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Jul 2012 23:41:13 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.194] by tm10.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Jul 2012 23:41:13 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1052.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Jul 2012 23:41:13 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 498680.27195.bm@omp1052.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 96392 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Jul 2012 23:41:13 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1342568473; bh=NB3DSyUvUwG6px6Hvc7slLv6/8Yvpzq0fAzTnvg8twc=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=O4E64PIaYxCgksUHm2ThxzDqB+9j792H1dYTz3kWKIFb+K7xEShQj+VP/0t6UvprI12dJVxfnCdZkq4VGeKFAQY2eVzKbW6QqAWc9ybliyrO/rQr4p3GEqEjY5elbMvM5fqHpusEsr/yDdGkIkvMunVTio1I/BZZUs9zkwl6+PU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=A7XONIYwuoD6IZuiO6RmWWQEX5UfomYUSE1qaxHlJ2GYAhvLspjeazDuB9627UlIYo7qn8ETorPk1RdGGDWzeA04q04aJBciBKPz58IkiWiosPV8msZ4l4SJ/+xeQd0ANVidjsCqLmKWjpwfJZEWa5/B/3ToqO1uTHELI7LMVfQ=; X-YMail-OSG: d8lUaFgVM1mNelFtNfCmNWglhZw6TrvS7l_ctzmlpEME.Hs 5gNuHnWm83BBVPa_p_lK0Lm1kLdjiP3SJ3Wb8cXHjd2kadF3qlchmbjjQM6T Gt8w7ccx5rFARP.uq0QW8bAoha_cYEcPyUX_pxP2Knkhun6bdBjejmy9Vkoi _gSGokf1PcDcdOfNrL5cpT325h.gy5qRTmdM7sUxxvGF04CnTUELMaNhsW2c v26nxOw5y3MKa85xsWZ4P1NJv_b6UHTAtJcDUvp2wnrjDnNgsVMJNG5S_JRG zwtzYNHuS3JAajwT6K62LNAEpzeu3ttj8oilVOEF1MHDbk_8cSjPbtvaeEWw 8hSU.wBtsI_PHTqn5D.UV6wFkU4BrhSGYaWpUiq7ZknuiOuDnaiYQa1IdtGJ ItQ-- Received: from [173.164.238.34] by web122506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:41:13 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/15.0.8 YahooMailWebService/0.8.120.356233 Message-ID: <1342568473.95824.YahooMailClassic@web122506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:41:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Usher To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Random LSI 9211 / mps issues... X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:41:19 -0000 Hello, I am happy to see that LSI is actually maintaining and publishing a driver for the 9211-8i card (the mps driver). If you use 8.3-RELEASE, the driver you receive is: mps0: Firmware: 07.00.00.00, Driver: 13.00.00.00-fbsd But I see that there is a newer 13.x driver on their website. However, they only provide a kernel module - which means I would need to remove mps which is nicely compiled into my kernel, and run a module instead. is there any way to get the newest mps driver code into my kernel, or do I need to revert to a module ? ----- I also wonder about any kind of drive blink functionality ... support at LSI has conceded that this is either missing or broken - they seemed to think it was a bug in the current driver, but I don't see that it is a function at all. Is anyone here blinking disks in any way with mps based cards ? We really like to have some kind of positive ID on disks when we remove them, etc. If the disk fails completely and the LED is off, I guess that's easy, but if it's still running, a solid LED is indistinguishable from an extremely busy disk, which also looks solid. Any thoughts ? Thanks.