On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 11:38:54AM -0500, Chris Ross
wrote:> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 02:28:17PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> > 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.
> > |
> > | 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.
>
> Hi Doug! Thanks. Okay, I infer from that that the mpr driver is for
> HBAs that aren't raid? Grepping through the sources for 3516 found me
> only mpr. Looking more carefully, at mrsas while knowing specifically
> what I'm looking for, I find the PCI device ID (0x0014) as "AVAGO
Ventura
> SAS Controller". And, that code (mrsas) is about the same in
stable-12 as
> is it in -current.
>
> Can you provide some guidance of what I need to do to get the mrsas
> driver to identify it when booting the install ISO?
See the "PRIORITY" section of
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mrsas&sektion=4
You can also set that tunable via the loader
Regards,
Gary