SAS3508 Card Not Usable in FreeBSD 11.2

[Scott Long]

Hi,

It looks like the in-tree driver hasn’t been updated with the latest code from LSI/Broadcom to support this card.  I’ll look at this later today, but for now I’m glad that the vendor driver worked for you.  Thanks for bringing this issue forward.

Scott


> On Apr 8, 2019, at 10:40 AM, Wallace Barrow <incin at incin.me> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a new server with the following card installed:
> 
> MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3508
> 
> The system is running FreeBSD 11.2p9 on two hard drives, in a mirror, directly attached to the motherboard.
> 
> I would like to use the MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3508 card for the other 26 hard drives in the server. 
> 
> It seems the mpr and the mrsas kernel modules that come with FreeBSD 11.2 do not initiate the card with the driver. The card is listed in this driver list:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpr&sektion=4
> 
> When running: pciconf -l -v 
> 
> none at pci0:24:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x02101137 chip=0x00161000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
> device = 'MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3508'
> class = mass storage
> subclass = RAID
> 
> I tried manually setting different drivers and options in my boot loader file with no luck.
> 
> I grabbed the mrsas.ko file from Broadcom that they built on FreeBSD 11.2 and replaced the default one and set mrsas_load="YES" and hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1".
> 
> After a reboot I could see the card attached to the mrsas driver and I can use my drives.
> 
> mrsas0 at pci0:24:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x02101137 chip=0x00161000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
> device = 'MegaRAID Tri-Mode SAS3508'
> class = mass storage
> subclass = RAID
> 
> Anyone else have this odd issue? Seems like all other SAS card I have used do not have problems. 
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
>  Wallace
>  incin at incin.me
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