From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 08:36:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D401065672 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:36:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF65A8FC16 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwn22 with SMTP id 22so3026601wwn.1 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.72.65 with SMTP id s43mr17051664wed.40.1317630985661; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fr18sm22150531wbb.9.2011.10.03.01.36.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E897407.905@my.gd> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:36:23 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201110020948.p929mSsU002452@jau.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <201110020948.p929mSsU002452@jau.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 on an AMD64 with an LSI SAS controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:36:27 -0000 On 10/2/11 11:48 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: > > Greetings all, > > Roughly a week ago I sent to this mailing list a question about > problems with installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD64 system. > It seems that I now know the reason why booting from the install CD > failed. When buying the system I had not paid enough attention to > the fact that the SAS controller on the motherboard is a new LSI > SAS2008-IR which would need the mps driver. I had been assuming > that since there is an LSI controller on the motherboard the older > mpt driver should work. > The mps driver, which would be needed for the SAS2008 series is > still relatively new work in progress, is apparently not part of > the GENERIC kernel used for the install kits. > > The next obvious question in my mind is: "Are these new SAS2008 > series controllers now becoming common as the default SAS chips > on motherboards?" > If so, until the mps driver matures enough it might be better for > everybody to check before selecting a motherboard that the SAS > controller on it will work with the older mpt driver. > mps has been backported to the 8.x branch from 9.x several months ago. AFAIK, it's included in GENERIC, there is no reason it wouldn't be.