Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-23 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:15 AM, Karl Denninger wrote: No management tool = el-sucko, because you can't rebuild a failed disk or even shut the alarm on the board off! This is precisely the reason I have dropped using Adaptec controllers. The most recent ones cannot be managed with the

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-20 Thread Ruben van Staveren
On 20 Jun 2008, at 6:37, Karl Denninger wrote: The linux version sysctl is? Also I think you need to make sure mfi_linux.ko is loaded before linuxsys.ko mounts so you get the emulation hooks. Verify that via: head /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host/*/proc_name results in one

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:42:23PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Karl Denninger writes: [snip] | Ok, wiped the src tree, re-cvs'd out the RELENG_7, rebuild world and kernel | and reinstalled (nice fast machine eh?) Not needed since FreeBSD 6.2 if I recall right. Forget if I got it in

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Karl Denninger wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Pete French wrote:

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Ruben van Staveren
Hi, On 18 Jun 2008, at 12:29, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Did you follow all steps from ports/sysutils/linux-megacli/pkg- message ? Though I think there is a small bug in the port (maintainer CCed) It wants compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.12, but I think it should be compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 ?

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:29:56PM +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Intel SRCSAS18E card in it, and well, the only way I can describe it is

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi, Ruben van Staveren wrote: Hi, On 18 Jun 2008, at 12:29, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Did you follow all steps from ports/sysutils/linux-megacli/pkg-message ? Though I think there is a small bug in the port (maintainer CCed) It wants compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.12, but I think it should be

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi Karl, Karl Denninger wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:29:56PM +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Intel SRCSAS18E card

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Ruben van Staveren
On 18 Jun 2008, at 16:07, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Last time I checked it was still 2.6.12. it still is set to that value on our 2950's (running 6.2 and linux_base-fc-4_9) I never saw 2.6.12 in documentation, but you may be right. Tough in ports/UPDATING only 2.6.16 is mention.

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi Ruben, Ruben van Staveren wrote: On 18 Jun 2008, at 16:07, Stefan Lambrev wrote: Last time I checked it was still 2.6.12. it still is set to that value on our 2950's (running 6.2 and linux_base-fc-4_9) I never saw 2.6.12 in documentation, but you may be right. Tough in ports/UPDATING

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Karl Denninger
dbms# ./CmdTool2 -Cfgdsply -a0 Failed to get ControllerId List. Failed to get CpController object. dbms# H... this is on a new machine that I loaded 7-RELEASE on and then grabbed the CVS tree and pulled a -rRELENG_7 on and rebuilt. Let me

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Karl Denninger writes: [snip] | Ok, wiped the src tree, re-cvs'd out the RELENG_7, rebuild world and kernel | and reinstalled (nice fast machine eh?) Not needed since FreeBSD 6.2 if I recall right. Forget if I got it in 6.1. | Anyway, no change: | | dbms# uname -v | FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE

Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-17 Thread Karl Denninger
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Pete French wrote: I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long while.

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Pete French wrote: I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but have been out of

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Pete French wrote: I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but have been out of

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-17 Thread Karl Denninger
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:15:30PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0100, Pete French wrote: I assume SCSI is the best path