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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2019 14:28:17 -0800
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cisco 12G SAS RAID support (FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE) ?
Message-ID:  <20191108222816.GA76344@ambrisko.com>
In-Reply-To: <65cd40b7-e982-496b-4876-21d352a03634@quip.cz>
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>

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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.
| >>
| >> Do you have mpr_load="YES" in loader.conf?
| >> Or for ISO booting you can manually load kernel modules at boot prompt.
| > 
| > I dropped to boot prompt in ISO boot, and entered 'mpr_load="YES"'.
| > 
| > I tried "load", but wasn't able to devine how to load the mpr module with
| > that.  Is that needed, or should 'mpr_load="YES"' have accomplished the
| > desired result?
| 
| 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.

Doug A.



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