LSI/AVGO/Broadcom 9280-16i4e support?

[mike tancsa]

On 9/3/2019 10:46 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>> (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.


mrsas seems to be better maintained than mfi and I have had cards that
didnt work on RELENG12 via the mfi driver but did via mrsas[1]. You dont
need mfip as drives show up as /dev/da* and smartctl works with the
corresponding /dev/pass# device files. You can also use storcli (also in
the ports) to put it in jbod mode if you dont like megacli

eg

storcli /c0 show all
storcli /c0 show help
storcli /c0 set jbod=on (enable jbod mode for drives)
storcli /c0/e252/s0 set jbod (sets a disk into jbod mode)

I am using the mrsas driver in jbod mode on the 9272 controller for ZFS
and its nice and zippy and (so far) quite reliable.

# storcli /c0 show all
Generating detailed summary of the adapter, it may take a while to complete.

CLI Version = 007.0709.0000.0000 Aug 14, 2018
Operating system = FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = None


Basics :
======
Controller = 0
Model = LSI MegaRAID SAS 9272-8i

....

PD LIST :
=======

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EID:Slt DID State DG     Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model               
Sp Type
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
252:0    15 JBOD  -  7.276 TB SATA HDD N   N  512B WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0
U  -   
252:4    16 JBOD  -  7.276 TB SATA HDD N   N  512B WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0
U  -   
252:5    18 JBOD  -  7.276 TB SATA HDD N   N  512B WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0
U  -   
252:6    19 JBOD  -  7.276 TB SATA HDD N   N  512B WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0
U  -   
252:7    17 JBOD  -  7.276 TB SATA HDD N   N  512B WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0
U  -   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# camcontrol devlist
<ATA WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81>        at scbus1 target 15 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
<ATA WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81>        at scbus1 target 16 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
<ATA WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81>        at scbus1 target 17 lun 0 (pass2,da2)
<ATA WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81>        at scbus1 target 18 lun 0 (pass3,da3)
<ATA WDC WD80EFAX-68K 0A81>        at scbus1 target 19 lun 0 (pass4,da4)

# smartctl -a /dev/pass0 | head
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Red
Device Model:     WDC WD80EFAX-68KNBN0
Serial Number:    VAHZRMSL
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 099dc0f9d
Firmware Version: 81.00A81
User Capacity:    8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB]

 

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231432

---Mike