8.3 stable or 9.0 stable amd64 iso with mfi driver changes of May 18, 2012

[Jean Christofferson]

I am trying to install FreeBSD stable - either 8.3 or 9.0  - on a Dell  
420 with Perc H310 LSI PCI Express SAS Rain controllers.


Although the physical disks are present and recognized by the BIOS the  
sysinstall does not see the disks.  I think the issue is mfi driver  
and was added to the stable release May 18, 2012.


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfisektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+8.3-RELEASE

I do not have an environment to download the source and make my own  
installation disk.  The 8.3 image on the ftp site is dated April 9,  
2012 and the 9.0 is Jan 2012.


Is there some place I can download an amd63 iso that was includes the  
mfi driver update done on May 18, 2012?


Or perhaps that is not really the issue at all - any help that anyone  
can provide will be welcome!


Thanks,

Jean


Jean Christofferson
je...@relevantpower.com
Relevant Power, Inc.
www.relevanttools.com
415-472-8400 
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Re: 8.3 stable or 9.0 stable amd64 iso with mfi driver changes of May 18, 2012

[Jean Christofferson]

Kevin,

Thank you for your response.  It is great to get confirmation and I  
will try with 9.1-RC1


I DO have on board Broadcom 5720 NIC.  Nice to know what my next  
problem is likely to be.  Hopefully that will be easy to solve if I  
install another NIC card.


Thanks!

Jean


Jean Christofferson
je...@relevantpower.com
Relevant Power, Inc.
www.relevanttools.com

On Sep 14, 2012, at 6:14 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote:


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:45:49PM -0700, Jean Christofferson wrote:
I am trying to install FreeBSD stable - either 8.3 or 9.0  - on a  
Dell

420 with Perc H310 LSI PCI Express SAS Raid controllers.

Although the physical disks are present and recognized by the BIOS  
the

sysinstall does not see the disks.  I think the issue is mfi driver
and was added to the stable release May 18, 2012.


Yup, the 12G machines came out when the paint was drying on 8.3. So  
there

isn't a -stable release with the updated driver.

The new mfi driver is in 9.1-RC1 if you are OK with a pre-release.

I hope you don't have the Broadcom 5720 NIC like the R620. The FreeBSD
driver (bge) isn't finished yet. At least, I don't remember seeing  
it go
into the tree. It's known to _not_ work on the R620 and I believe  
R720.

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