Dell PowerEdge R920 w/ Perc H730P

[RANDOLPH, DONALD L]

The install failed using the method below.  While extracting the archives I get an mfi command failed... then a series of mfi0: COMMAND 0xfffffe0001fcf388 timeout after 76 seconds... and it keeps incrementing from there.

Should the drive still show up as mfid0 during install?  I was expecting to see mrsasd0 or something of that sort.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Barber [mailto:gjb at freebsd.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 1:47 PM
To: RANDOLPH, DONALD L
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge R920 w/ Perc H730P

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 06:39:59PM +0000, RANDOLPH, DONALD L wrote:
> I'm having an issue install FreeBSD 10.0 on a Dell PowerEdge w/ the Perc H730P raid controller.
> I see there has been support added for the controller in the stable version using the mrsas driver.
> But when I boot up in the installer... it is still trying to use the older mfi driver.
> How do I get the installer to properly recognize the raid controller?
> Are there any logs I can provide to help solve this issue?
> 

At the loader(8) prompt, try:

    set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
    boot

There is an overlap between some mfi(4) drivers and the mrsas(4) driver,
and the mfi(4) probe happens first.

Glen