On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 02:26:38AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Marius Strobl <mar...@alchemy.franken.de> > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:52:14PM -0600, McConnell, Stephen wrote: > >> Marius, > >> > >> Since the 0x59 device is a MegaRAID device, shouldn't you be using the > >> MegaRAID driver. ??Why is the MPT driver being used in this case? ??The > >> problem is that the MPT driver was wrongly attaching to some MegaRAID > >> controllers and that was causing conflict problems, so that was fixed by > >> removing MegaRAID ID's from the MPT driver. > > > > Apparently, the 0x59 devices worked just fine using mpt(4) before r232411. > > Are MegaRAID devices backwards-compatible so they can alternatively be > > driven by MPT drivers? > > The device in question is a built-in 1068-based controller on a > SuperMicro X8ST3 board. > > It can be converted to MegaRAID mode with a special addon "button" > (AOC-IButton68). > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8ST3-F.cfm
Okay, so unless these devices also can be driven by mfi(4) when not in MegaRAID mode, we need a way to tell both modes apart in the probe functions of both drivers. Marius _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
