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Date:      Sun, 4 Apr 2010 21:19:19 +0400
From:      pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        John <comp.john@googlemail.com>
Cc:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Varan Okul <varanokul@hotmail.com>, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)
Message-ID:  <z2ya31046fc1004041019kdaf6241cp7124de2e3ee9613c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100404153347.GA40823@potato>
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On 4 April 2010 19:33, John <comp.john@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the
> second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an
> installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free
> version.
>
> Here are the OSes I tried:
>
> FreeBSD 8
> FreeBSD 9
> NetBSD 5.0.2
> CentOS
> Ubuntu 9.10 server
>
> Basically the LSI SA2008 seems very new so it's unsurprising my
> favourite OS doesn't support it. Hopefully it will in the near future,
> because this card is a popular option on a popular server aimed at
> small to medium sized businesses. OpenSuse-11.2 also does GPT in its
> installation process. I had to raid0 the disks before they could be
> seen properly though.
>
> Current dmesg is available here: http://www.growveg.org/server/dmesg.txt

A wild guess it's just not listed in mfi(4) pciids table (as well as
for rest H200 family).
What if you try this?

--- sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c.orig  2010-04-04 20:02:26.000000000 +0400
+++ sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c       2010-04-04 20:06:17.000000000 +0400
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
 } mfi_identifiers[] = {
        {0x1000, 0x0060, 0x1028, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078,  "Dell PERC 6"},
        {0x1000, 0x0060, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078,  "LSI MegaSAS 1078"},
+       {0x1000, 0x0072, 0x1028, 0x1f1e, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2,  "Dell PERC
H200 Integrated"},
        {0x1000, 0x0078, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2,  "LSI MegaSAS Gen2"},
        {0x1000, 0x0079, 0x1028, 0x1f15, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2,  "Dell PERC
H800 Adapter"},
        {0x1000, 0x0079, 0x1028, 0x1f16, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2,  "Dell PERC
H700 Adapter"},

-- 
wbr,
pluknet



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