Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:35:08 -0500 From: "B. Cook" <bcook@poklib.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 & Dell 2950 PERC 5/i mfi question Message-ID: <454B7DCC.4080104@poklib.org> In-Reply-To: <15E9811B1FA2534EA2284DC97EF9E79F06C1E561@THN-EXCLS1.dc1.doubleclick.corp> References: <15E9811B1FA2534EA2284DC97EF9E79F06C1E561@THN-EXCLS1.dc1.doubleclick.corp>
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Krempasky, Mark wrote: > Hi, > We have a requirement to run FreeBSD 5.5 on a few Dell 2950's. > Unfortunately FreeBSD5.5 doesn't have the mfi drivers for the PERCK 5/I > controllers. Does anyone know of a reasonable work around to load the > drivers before sysinstall and then a way to permanently install them > after the OS is loaded? > I know FreeBSD6.x has the drivers by default but I just wanted to check > if there was an easy work around with 5.5 before I push back on the > developers. > > Thanks a ton. > [/usr/src]$ 5 > find . -name mfi ./sys/dev/mfi ./sys/modules/mfi [/boot/kernel]$ 9 > ls -l /boot/kernel/mfi.ko -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28597 Nov 2 14:07 /boot/kernel/mfi.ko I would try and build the module and load it that way.. (the driver does support the card fully in 6.1.. ) bcook@Webster [~]$ 2 > dmesg | grep mfi mfi0: <Dell PERC 5/i> mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xfc6e0000-0xfc6fffff irq 142 at device 14.0 on pci2 mfid0: <MFI Logical Disk> on mfi0 mfid0: 456191MB (934281215 sectors) RAID Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a (6 160GB drives in a raid 10 fwiw)
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