Dell PowerEdge R920 w/ Perc H730P

[Mark Johnston]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 07:02:09PM +0000, RANDOLPH, DONALD L wrote:
> 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.

It looks like the mrsas_enable tunable was never merged to stable/10. :(
I can merge it in a bit (together with 267451) if no one has objections.

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

With mrsas(4) the volumes will show up as daN.

> 
> 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
> 
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