freebsd compatibility and Dell servers

[Matthew Seaman]

On 05/12/15 11:45, claire.boyer at arcitek.fr wrote:
> The servers are all Dell servers :
> -Dell PowerEdge R730 with one processor E5 v3, 6 cores with Intel network card : Intel X520, double port, 10 Gb, 1Gbe, DA/SFP+, I350 DP
> -Dell PowerEdge R730 with one processor E5 v3, 4 cores with Intel network card : Intel X520, double port, 10 Gb, 1Gbe, DA/SFP+, I350 DP

We're running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE on a R730 quite happily.  The only
gotcha we encountered was support for the H730 RAID controller -- this
probes as an mfi(4) device but doesn't work properly (timeouts, IO
failures, probably soon enough that you won't be able to complete
installing the system).  You need to set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1 at the
loader prompt and then in /boot/loader.conf to override it into using
the mrsas(4) driver, after which everything works like a charm.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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