Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:12:49 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Gabriel Markley <gmarkley@greatbaysoftware.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel integrated RAID for the SR2500ALLXR freebsd support Message-ID: <20080530161249.GA46028@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <4840239E.2020607@greatbaysoftware.com> References: <4840239E.2020607@greatbaysoftware.com>
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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 |
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