From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 16:12:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BD0106566C for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 16:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3C58FC19 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 16:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD7771CC031; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:12:49 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Gabriel Markley Message-ID: <20080530161249.GA46028@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <4840239E.2020607@greatbaysoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4840239E.2020607@greatbaysoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel integrated RAID for the SR2500ALLXR freebsd support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:12:50 -0000 On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:56:14AM -0400, Gabriel Markley wrote: > I am a systems engineer for Great Bay Software we are looking to move our > servers over to freebsd. > I am having trouble finding any documentation on using freebsd with Intel > integrated RAID for the SR2500ALLXR. > I need to find out if there is a driver available? > And can I pull status of the raid from it? i.e. H.D. failure and any other > possible problems... > Other then look in the bios and or look at the front plane to see if a > drive has failed. > > I am going to add the detailed specs that I was given below: > Active Mid-plane with SAS /SAS RAID Support > The active mid-plane is used to provide SAS / SAS RAID support. It has > integrated on to it an > Intel IOP80333 IO processor and an LSI* LSLSAS1068 3Gb/s SAS controller. This would probably fall under the mpt(4) or mfi(4) driver. I don't know if either of those drivers have support for that exact model of LSI controller, however. Best bet would be to get a FreeBSD livefs or bootonly CD and then see what is (or is not) detected. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |