Re: FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710
I'm wondering if this was resolved. I was looking at Dell R610s with Perc H700 and no solid information either. Found a few threads with people having issues with it, no solutions. These been out since early 2010, not cutting edge by any means. Is anyone using Dell R610/R620 with Perc H700/H710 reliably for some time? How can a hardcore server-OS like FreeBSD not have solid support for these popular server platforms :\ The more I run into these issues, the more I'm being forced to consider Linux; this is somewhat sad. I hope I'm mistaken but it seems like there is less and less support for mainstream server out-of-box hardware lately. -Simon On Thu, 17 May 2012 11:24:01 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:07:30PM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2012 13:04:25 -0500, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Would anyone else out there have any experience with installing FreeBSD on the R620 and be able to provide any tips for troubleshooting? Does 9.0 install on that hardware? It's possible your controller chip has a slightly different revision that isn't listed in the driver. I'd expect it to not work on 9.0 either in that case. I also have an R620 possibly with the same card. FreeBSD 8.3 does not see the card. FreeBSD 9.0 sees the card well enough to hang the kernel trying to get a good response out of the probe. I thought the mfi driver was the relevant one? I'm pretty sure that's the one that hangs 9.0. I'll check tonight. Having 9.0 hang makes it ... difficult ... to get a 9.0 install done to the built-in usb drive. So I'm planning on trying to run a 9.0-current kernel with an 8.3 userland at least for a little while. -- Kevin P. Nealhttp://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps! Keir Finlow Bates, circa 1998 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710
I'm glad to hear at least the Perc 6/i is working fine with R610 which is what I'm looking to get to avoid all the trouble with the new R620 Albeit I need to use the 1TB SAS drives that are 6gbps, so I really wanted to use the H700 instead of the much older Perc 6/i, which I also have working fine in a number of R710s When you get a chance, please find out what those other R610s are running and in what RAID config. I'm surprised so few on the list use Dell's Perc H700 Thanks, Simon On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:03:35 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 02:28:18PM -0400, Simon wrote: I'm wondering if this was resolved. I was looking at Dell R610s with Perc H700 and no solid information either. Found a few threads with people having issues with it, no solutions. These been out since early 2010, not cutting edge by any means. Is anyone using Dell R610/R620 with Perc H700/H710 reliably for some time? I've got an R610 with the PERC 6/i (not what you asked) that runs like a champ. I plan on upgrading the card at some point, but for now it works fine. The trick was to turn off _all_ the power savings features (C1E, etc) in the BIOS. We have I don't even know how many R610 at work running FreeBSD 8.2 with some kind of RAID card, but I don't know which one. Those machines get pounded all day every day and I haven't heard of any problems. I haven't noticed any as a user. I'll find out and report back. I also have my R620 and the latest stable/8 has support for the H710 card (Mini, Monolithic). It works well enough to create a couple of ZFS pools and copy the install of FreeBSD over to the disks. But I have the Broadcom 5720 network daughtercard that doesn't work yet, so I don't know how the H710 performs under load. Am I correct that LSI is contributing to the drivers for the Dell cards that use LSI chips? Can someone verify that I'm not looney? The R620 went on sale within days of Intel's release of the chips. To be fair to FreeBSD the firmware that Dell shipped is ... half baked at best. For a while it insisted on using the wrong IP when using DHCP, the network upgrade of the firmware via FTP+proxy requests the wrong URL, etc etc. The Dell DVD-ROM USB drive can't be connected at the same time as the iDRAC network port or else the firmware won't initialize. And Dell had access to the hardware before it shipped. So I can't complain about FreeBSD's support for the R620 not being 100% in place when Dell hasn't gotten their act together yet. I'm told that support for the Broadcom card is being worked on. I do not have a timeframe. -- Kevin P. Nealhttp://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ Seen on bottom of IBM part number 1887724: DO NOT EXPOSE MOUSE PAD TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME. ___ 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 ___ 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
FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710
Hi All, I have a Dell R620 which utilizes the PERC H710 controller based on the LSI SAS 2208 chip. According to the hardware notes for 8.3-RELEASE, this chip is supported by the mps driver. Unfortunately, when I attempt to install 8.3-RELEASE via DVD, it does not recognize the controller and no disks are found and the install exits. The manpage indicates the driver was introduced in 9.0-RELEASE suggesting it was backported to 8.3? Would this be correct? A search for related bug reports did not return anything useful. Would anyone else out there have any experience with installing FreeBSD on the R620 and be able to provide any tips for troubleshooting? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ 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
Re: FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710
On Wed, 16 May 2012 13:04:25 -0500, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Would anyone else out there have any experience with installing FreeBSD on the R620 and be able to provide any tips for troubleshooting? Does 9.0 install on that hardware? It's possible your controller chip has a slightly different revision that isn't listed in the driver. I'd expect it to not work on 9.0 either in that case. ___ 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
