On Friday, March 30, 2012 12:06:40 am Jan Mikkelsen
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I have a loan LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i controller for testing.
>
> According to the LSI documentation, this device provides the MegaRAID
interface and the BIOS message mentions MFI. The LSI driver for this device
also lists support for the 9261 which I know is supported by mfi(4). Based on
all this, I was hopeful that mfi(4) would work with the
9240.>
> The pciconf -lv output is:
>
> none3@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x92411000 chip=0x00731000 rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
> device = 'MegaRAID SAS 9240'
> class = mass storage
> subclass = RAID
>
> I added this line to src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c
>
> {0x1000, 0x0073, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, "LSI MegaRAID SAS
9240"},
>
> It gave this result (tried with hw.mfi.msi set to 0 and to 1):
>
> mfi0: <LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xfe7bc000-0xfe7bffff,0xfe7c0000-0xfe7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> mfi0: Using MSI
> mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00
> mfi0: Frame 0xffffff8000285000 timed out command 0x26C8040
> mfi0: failed to send init command
>
> The firmware is package 20.10.1-0077, which is the latest on the LSI
website.
>
> Is this path likely to work out? Any suggestions on where to go from here?
You should try the updated mfi(4) driver that Doug (cc'd) is going to soon
merge into HEAD. It syncs up with the mfi(4) driver on LSI's website which
supports several cards that the current mfi(4) driver does not. (I'm not
fully sure if the 9240 is in that group or not. Doug might know however.)
--
John Baldwin