HP Smart array P440 support

[Priyadarshana Chandrasena]

I have tried to install FreeBSD 10.3 in a HP DL20 Gen 9 server with P440
smart array. My installation media is in a USB drive.

In BIOS I set the Boot mode to Legacy boot mode. 
Created my P440 array and a logical drive with RAID 1.
Disabled B140i controller.

The installation process went on and I saw the following messages :  

>ciss0: <HP Smart Array P440ar> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 
> 0x92c00000-0x92cfffff,0x92d00000-0x92d003ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on 
> pci3
> ciss0: PERFORMANT Transport
> ...
> da0 at ciss0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <HP RAID 1(1+0) OK> Fixed Direct Access SPC-3 SCSI device
> da0: Serial Number PDNLH0BRH8S3RF
> da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da0: Command Queueing enabled
> da0: 139979MB (286677120 512 byte sectors)

Similar to yours but not exactly the same. But I have ciss0 on P440 and da0
on ciss0. I think my P440 is properly probed and instantiated. After this
stage my installation process hangs with the following error:

Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeBSD_Install failed with error 19.

Then my usb keyboard is frozen and I can not enter anything to let the
installation process continue. 

I can not figure what the problem is. Could you please give me some
solution? Could it be an installation media download issue?. Installation
media creation problem ? ( I used 
dd if=FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img of=/dev/da1 bs=1M
conv=sync command to create the boot usb)

Regards,
Chandrasena

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Saad [mailto:nonesuch at longcount.org] 
Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2017 3:56 AM
To: sthaug at nethelp.no
Cc: vpc at ulka.com.au; rainer at ultra-secure.de; FreeBSD-stable at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: HP Smart array P440 support

All
Also don't forget to is install cciss_vol_status to monitor the array .

---
Mark Saad | nonesuch at longcount.org

On Sep 2, 2017, at 11:41 AM, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

>>> I have HP DL20 Gen 9 server. But I can not install FreeBSD 10.2 in 
>>> it. I have a HP smart array P440 in my server. I can not find out 
>>> anywhere if ciss driver support include HP Gen 9 storage 
>>> controllers.  Could you please update the ciss driver in 10.3?
>> 
>> Try 10.3
>> 
>> I know the release-notes say nothing about it, but I believe it is
supported.
>> 
>> If not that, 11.0 surely does (even though the release-notes 
>> don$,1ry(Bt mention it, either)
> 
> I can confirm that 10.3 supports the P440 controller. From a DL360 
> Gen9 server running 10.3 here:
> 
> ciss0: <HP Smart Array P440ar> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 
> 0x92c00000-0x92cfffff,0x92d00000-0x92d003ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on 
> pci3
> ciss0: PERFORMANT Transport
> ...
> da0 at ciss0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <HP RAID 1(1+0) OK> Fixed Direct Access SPC-3 SCSI device
> da0: Serial Number PDNLH0BRH8S3RF
> da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da0: Command Queueing enabled
> da0: 139979MB (286677120 512 byte sectors)
> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no 
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