On 10/2/11 11:48 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: > > Greetings all, > > Roughly a week ago I sent to this mailing list a question about > problems with installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD64 system. > It seems that I now know the reason why booting from the install CD > failed. When buying the system I had not paid enough attention to > the fact that the SAS controller on the motherboard is a new LSI > SAS2008-IR which would need the mps driver. I had been assuming > that since there is an LSI controller on the motherboard the older > mpt driver should work. > The mps driver, which would be needed for the SAS2008 series is > still relatively new work in progress, is apparently not part of > the GENERIC kernel used for the install kits. > > The next obvious question in my mind is: "Are these new SAS2008 > series controllers now becoming common as the default SAS chips > on motherboards?" > If so, until the mps driver matures enough it might be better for > everybody to check before selecting a motherboard that the SAS > controller on it will work with the older mpt driver. >
mps has been backported to the 8.x branch from 9.x several months ago. AFAIK, it's included in GENERIC, there is no reason it wouldn't be. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"