hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough missing?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Fri Mar 4 21:31:45 UTC 2016


On 3/4/2016 4:12 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> 
> Since I'm here, what's the opinion on mfip?

I have been using it on a couple of boxes with the 9240-8i controller
for some time with very good results.

You see the disks via cam.  In the box below, I use the disks as JBODs
for a large ZFS pool.

# camcontrol devlist
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80>        at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82>        at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80>        at scbus0 target 10 lun 0 (pass2,da2)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80>        at scbus0 target 11 lun 0 (pass3,da3)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82>        at scbus0 target 13 lun 0 (pass4,da4)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A80>        at scbus0 target 15 lun 0 (pass5,da5)
<ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 1L01>        at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass6,da6)
<ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 1D05>        at scbus1 target 1 lun 0 (pass7,da7)
<ATA WDC WD2002FAEX-0 1D05>        at scbus1 target 2 lun 0 (pass8,da8)
<ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 0101>        at scbus1 target 3 lun 0 (pass9,da9)
<ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 0101>        at scbus1 target 4 lun 0 (pass10,da10)
<ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 0101>        at scbus1 target 5 lun 0 (pass11,da11)
<ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68E 0A82>        at scbus1 target 6 lun 0 (pass12,da12)

smartctl works too

 smartctl -a /dev/da0 -d sat
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [FreeBSD 10.3-BETA3 amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Red
Device Model:     WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4E0911515
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 209be76c0
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Fri Mar  4 16:30:04 2016 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled


# mfiutil show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
   Serial Number: SP34906493
        Firmware: 20.13.1-0208
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID10
  Battery Backup: not present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 0M
  Minimum Stripe: 8K
  Maximum Stripe: 64K

	---Mike

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