LSI/AVGO/Broadcom 9280-16i4e support?

[Josh Paetzel]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, at 8:13 AM, Ireneusz Pluta/wp.pl wrote:
> W dniu 2019-09-03 o 01:25, Josh Paetzel pisze:
>> The closest you can get to pass through is a bunch of single drive RAID 0 disks with the caching disabled.

> The 9280-16i4e supports JBOD mode.


> Consider:


> MegaCli -AdpSetProp -EnableJBOD -val -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL
>  val - 0=Disable JBOD mode.
>  1=Enable JBOD mode


> MegaCli -PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv[E0:S0,E1:S1,...] -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL


> and:


> $ grep mfi /boot/loader.conf 
> mfip_load="YES"
> hw.mfi.allow_cam_disk_passthrough=1


> (however, not sure if mfip_load is really necessary :-).


> The above works for me in a 11.2-RELEASE machine. However this is a playground machine, used mainly for smoke-testing disks, not for serious production tasks.

> 


Well, you are right about that.

mfip gives you access to SMART. mrsas doesn't have an analogue to that.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel