Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 16:48:10 +0000 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> Cc: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: Cisco 12G SAS RAID support (FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE) ? Message-ID: <20191109164810.GA88319@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20191109163853.GA1053@westeros.distal.com> References: <20191105183448.GE1177@westeros.distal.com> <65e90493-a038-5668-45e9-5101c52c23eb@quip.cz> <20191105201942.GF1177@westeros.distal.com> <65cd40b7-e982-496b-4876-21d352a03634@quip.cz> <20191108222816.GA76344@ambrisko.com> <20191109163853.GA1053@westeros.distal.com>
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 11:38:54AM -0500, Chris Ross wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 02:28:17PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:44:36PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > | Chris Ross wrote on 11/05/2019 21:19: > > | > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:20:15PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > | >> Chris Ross wrote on 11/05/2019 19:34: > > | >>> Hello. I have a Cisco UCS C220-M5 with a RAID controller. It calls itself > > | >>> "Cisco 12G Modular Raid Controller with 2GB cache", PPID UCSC-RAID-M5. > > | >>> Looking at the CIMC, it shows the PCI vendor/device ids 1000:0014, which > > | >>> looks to be an LSI MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3516. It looks like this should > > | >>> be supported by the mpr(4) driver, but it doesn't seem to recognize it > > | >>> at boot time. > > | > > | mpr_load="YES" goes to /etc/loader.conf > > | > > | If you need to load mpr manually in boot prompt I am not sure if it > > | should be: > > | load mpr > > | or > > | load mpr.ko > > | of full path > > | load /boot/kernel/mpr.ko > > > > This should be a mrsas card and not an HBA! mrsas supports all current > > UCS RAID cards ... and the next unreleased UCS system :-) You might need > > the one in -current for that. I'm not sure what is in 12.1. > > Hi Doug! Thanks. Okay, I infer from that that the mpr driver is for > HBAs that aren't raid? Grepping through the sources for 3516 found me > only mpr. Looking more carefully, at mrsas while knowing specifically > what I'm looking for, I find the PCI device ID (0x0014) as "AVAGO Ventura > SAS Controller". And, that code (mrsas) is about the same in stable-12 as > is it in -current. > > Can you provide some guidance of what I need to do to get the mrsas > driver to identify it when booting the install ISO? See the "PRIORITY" section of https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mrsas&sektion=4 You can also set that tunable via the loader Regards, Gary
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