Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:27:16 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM / LSI disk card & 10 Gbit broadcom NIC not detected Message-ID: <ih6795$nb8$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin6nhHUVFHvqj9uX7Ku%2Bb33RravcaG3orL%2Ba53_@mail.gmail.com> References: <ih4m71$eo3$1@dough.gmane.org> <AANLkTin6nhHUVFHvqj9uX7Ku%2Bb33RravcaG3orL%2Ba53_@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18/01/2011 23:28, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: > On 18 January 2011 21:29, Ivan Voras<ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a bleeding edge machine here with new hardware, unrecognized by >> FreeBSD (stable and current). The RAID controller is a LSI/IBM-rebranded >> product and the 10 gbit NICs are Broadcom's. >> >> I'd be interested in a (very) quick solution, especially for the disk >> driver, otherwise I'll have to (quickly) install something else on the >> server. >> >> >> none2@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x03b11014 chip=0x00731000 > > Hi. > > LSI itself identifies that h/w with chip=0x00731000 as "Drake Skinny". > As per my conversation with Scott Long some time ago, "the current driver in > FreeBSD will work adequately for every MegaRAID SAS card except the "Skinny" > and "Drake" models. There are some serious bugs in the code provided by LSI. > First, they assume that only one adapter will be present in the system, and > store per-instance data in a set of global variables." Wait, LSI provides FreeBSD reference code? :))
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