freebsd stable - Sep 2017 - HP Smart array P440 support

> Am 02.09.2017 um 15:48 schrieb Priyadarshana Chandrasena <vpc at
ulka.com.au>:
> 
> I have HP DL20 Gen 9 server. But I can not install FreeBSD 10.2 in it. I
> have a HP smart array P440 in my server. I can not find out anywhere if
ciss
> driver support include HP Gen 9 storage controllers.  Could you please
> update the ciss driver in 10.3?
> 


Try 10.3

I know the release-notes say nothing about it, but I believe it is supported.

If not that, 11.0 surely does (even though the release-notes don?t mention it,
either)

> > I have HP DL20 Gen 9 server. But I can not install FreeBSD 10.2 in it.
I
> > have a HP smart array P440 in my server. I can not find out anywhere
if ciss
> > driver support include HP Gen 9 storage controllers.  Could you please
> > update the ciss driver in 10.3?
> 
> Try 10.3
> 
> I know the release-notes say nothing about it, but I believe it is
supported.
> 
> If not that, 11.0 surely does (even though the release-notes don$,1ry(Bt
mention it, either)
I can confirm that 10.3 supports the P440 controller. From a DL360 Gen9
server running 10.3 here:

ciss0: <HP Smart Array P440ar> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem
0x92c00000-0x92cfffff,0x92d00000-0x92d003ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
ciss0: PERFORMANT Transport
...
da0 at ciss0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <HP RAID 1(1+0) OK> Fixed Direct Access SPC-3 SCSI device
da0: Serial Number PDNLH0BRH8S3RF
da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
da0: Command Queueing enabled
da0: 139979MB (286677120 512 byte sectors)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no