ciss(4) HP Smart Array P840

[Jonathon Reinhart]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 2:44 AM,  <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:
> This is somewhat interesting to me since I actually have 10.2-STABLE
> up and running on a HP DL360 Gen9 server with what appears to be the
> same controller:

I forgot to mention that, because I was trying to use ZFS (on
FreeNAS), I had put the controller into HBA mode. Sorry about that.

> # uname -a
> FreeBSD nova.noc.as2116.net 10.2-STABLE FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE #0 r290663M: Tue Nov 10 18:24:51 CET 2015     sthaug at x.y.z:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/DNS  amd64

Again, I'm running 9.3-RELEASE-p25, but the release notes indicate no
difference in hardware support for the ciss driver:

    https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/hardware.html#support
    https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.2R/hardware.html#disk

> BIOS seetings that I changed: Disable UEFI, disable x2APIC.

I had to change these same settings as well.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:00 AM,  <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:
> Followup: According to HP specifications, the controllers available for
> DL360 Gen9 are: Either H240ar Smart Host Bus Adapter or P440ar Flexible
> Smart Array. So this may be a different storage controller, despite
> having the same PCI ID.

Mine is a DL380 Gen9, not a DL360. Specifically, it is a 779559-S01,
which comes with the P840ar/4GB:

    http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04375627.pdf