[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 28/10/2011 06:53, Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 27/10/2011 à 13:34:50-0400, David Magda a écrit
>> On Thu, October 27, 2011 11:32, Albert Shih wrote:
>>
>>>> I also recommend LSI 9200-8E or new 9205-8E with the IT firmware based
>>>> on past experience
>>> Do you known if the LSI-9205-8E HBA or the LSI-9202-16E HBA work under
>>> FreBSD 9.0 ?
>> Check the man page for mpt(4):
>>
>>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpt&manpath=FreeBSD+9-current
>>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpt&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE
> Well....I don't find this LSI in the mpt driver. I find the chipset of the 
> http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9202-16e.aspx in
> the mps drivers. But I don't known if it's enough to support le card. 
>
>> Or LSI's site:
>>
>>     http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9205-8e.aspx
> this one use 2308 chip and I definitely don't find this chip on mps driver. 
>
>>     http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9202-16e.aspx
>>
>> Do you know how to use a search engine?
> Don't knwon you tell me ;-)
>
> I going to spend lot of money to buy some card, I just hope I can sure the
> card going to work....

There is a fair chance for any newer LSI/PERC  that supports sas it may
be supported under the mfi driver.
for example on dell R410
mfiutil -u0 show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: PERC H700 Adapter
   Serial Number: 0CP00UO
        Firmware: 12.10.0-0025
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50
  Battery Backup: present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 512M
  Minimum Stripe: 8k
  Maximum Stripe: 1M

mfi0 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x010400 card=0x1f161028 chip=0x00791000
rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
    device     = 'MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator]'
    class      = mass storage


I am currently having some issues with a similar controller but thats a
different firmware and rebadged by supermicro.
so far i havent had any issues with this dell but its been under very
light load and only up for a month.

Vince
> Thanks
>
> Regards.
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> JAS
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