Intel integrated RAID for the SR2500ALLXR freebsd support

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:56:14AM -0400, Gabriel Markley wrote:
> I am a systems engineer for Great Bay Software we are looking to move our 
> servers over to freebsd.
> I am having trouble finding any documentation on using freebsd with Intel 
> integrated RAID for the SR2500ALLXR.
> I need to find out if there is a driver available?
> And can I pull status of the raid from it? i.e. H.D. failure and any other 
> possible problems...
> Other then look in the bios and or look at the front plane to see if a 
> drive has failed.
>
> I am going to add the detailed specs that I was given below:
> Active Mid-plane with SAS /SAS RAID Support
> The active mid-plane is used to provide SAS / SAS RAID support. It has 
> integrated on to it an
> Intel IOP80333 IO processor and an LSI* LSLSAS1068 3Gb/s SAS controller. 

This would probably fall under the mpt(4) or mfi(4) driver.  I don't
know if either of those drivers have support for that exact model of LSI
controller, however.

Best bet would be to get a FreeBSD livefs or bootonly CD and then see
what is (or is not) detected.

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