Miroslav Lachman
2019-Nov-05 20:44 UTC
Cisco 12G SAS RAID support (FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE) ?
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 Kind Regards Miroslav Lachman
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.