Re: Dell SAS6IR is it worth the effort to convert to IT

2018-09-13 Thread Lee Brown
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Lee Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the process of setting up an old PowerEdge R410 which has, I > > believe, the LSI Logic AS1068, using the mpt driver. >

Dell SAS6IR is it worth the effort to convert to IT

2018-09-13 Thread Lee Brown
Hi, I'm in the process of setting up an old PowerEdge R410 which has, I believe, the LSI Logic AS1068, using the mpt driver. I'm not interested in running it as a hardware RAID but rather a geli(authentication only)+gmirror+gjournal. It seems like flashing it requires booting into dos, which

Re: Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

2018-02-16 Thread Lee Brown
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:10 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote: > On 02/15/18 06:24, Lee Brown wrote: > >> I do find it curious that the loader is able to work the USB hardware but >> not the kernel. >> > > The loader is using the BIOS's USB co

Re: Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

2018-02-14 Thread Lee Brown
q On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote: > On 02/13/18 23:00, Lee Brown wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> >> wrote: >> >> On 02/13/18 19:52, Lee Brown wrote: >

Re: Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

2018-02-13 Thread Lee Brown
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote: > On 02/13/18 19:52, Lee Brown wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> >> wrote: >> >> On 02/13/18 14:45, Hans Petter Selasky w

Re: Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

2018-02-13 Thread Lee Brown
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote: > On 02/13/18 14:45, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > >> On 02/04/18 23:47, Lee Brown wrote: >> >>> Booting FreeBSD11.1-RELENG from a USB stick, loader works fine keyboard >>> al

Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot

2018-02-04 Thread Lee Brown
Booting FreeBSD11.1-RELENG from a USB stick, loader works fine keyboard allows selection, kernel loads and starts OK, gets as far as detecting USB devices and stops there. imgur for a screenshot. Tried safe mode same occurrence. CDROM is via a USB, so that's a no go

Re: Does anybody have experience with a MD1420, mpr(4)

2018-01-06 Thread Lee Brown
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Lee Brown <l...@ratnaling.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Kenneth D. Merry <k...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:24:47 -0800, Lee Brown wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >>

Re: Does anybody have experience with a MD1420, mpr(4)

2017-11-16 Thread Lee Brown
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Kenneth D. Merry <k...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:24:47 -0800, Lee Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is my for foray into DAS, so please be gentle :) Apologies if the > > cross-post is inappropriate, let me k

Does anybody have experience with a MD1420, mpr(4)

2017-11-15 Thread Lee Brown
Hi, This is my for foray into DAS, so please be gentle :) Apologies if the cross-post is inappropriate, let me know. I'm looking to build a SAS array with a Dell MD1420. It will be attached via a SAS 9300-414E HBA in a Dell R330. I've verified that the server / SAS card should be fine, but