Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)
Hi, In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free version. Here are the OSes I tried: FreeBSD 8 FreeBSD 9 NetBSD 5.0.2 CentOS Ubuntu 9.10 server Basically the LSI SA2008 seems very new so it's unsurprising my favourite OS doesn't support it. Hopefully it will in the near future, because this card is a popular option on a popular server aimed at small to medium sized businesses. OpenSuse-11.2 also does GPT in its installation process. I had to raid0 the disks before they could be seen properly though. Current dmesg is available here: http://www.growveg.org/server/dmesg.txt -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 (LSI2008)
On 4 April 2010 19:33, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
In the end I had to go with opensuse-11.2. I should have tried it in the
second place really, because the iDRAC has Suse enterprise as an
installation option, so it was a small leap to think of the free
version.
Here are the OSes I tried:
FreeBSD 8
FreeBSD 9
NetBSD 5.0.2
CentOS
Ubuntu 9.10 server
Basically the LSI SA2008 seems very new so it's unsurprising my
favourite OS doesn't support it. Hopefully it will in the near future,
because this card is a popular option on a popular server aimed at
small to medium sized businesses. OpenSuse-11.2 also does GPT in its
installation process. I had to raid0 the disks before they could be
seen properly though.
Current dmesg is available here: http://www.growveg.org/server/dmesg.txt
A wild guess it's just not listed in mfi(4) pciids table (as well as
for rest H200 family).
What if you try this?
--- sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c.orig 2010-04-04 20:02:26.0 +0400
+++ sys/dev/mfi/mfi_pci.c 2010-04-04 20:06:17.0 +0400
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
} mfi_identifiers[] = {
{0x1000, 0x0060, 0x1028, 0x, MFI_FLAGS_1078, Dell PERC 6},
{0x1000, 0x0060, 0x, 0x, MFI_FLAGS_1078, LSI MegaSAS 1078},
+ {0x1000, 0x0072, 0x1028, 0x1f1e, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, Dell PERC
H200 Integrated},
{0x1000, 0x0078, 0x, 0x, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, LSI MegaSAS Gen2},
{0x1000, 0x0079, 0x1028, 0x1f15, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, Dell PERC
H800 Adapter},
{0x1000, 0x0079, 0x1028, 0x1f16, MFI_FLAGS_GEN2, Dell PERC
H700 Adapter},
--
wbr,
pluknet
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Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. I configured the disks as JBOD but got the same results. I think the problem lies with all the disks each being 2TB so they can't be seen with sysinstall. maybe the way forward is to boot to live CD so there's a full environment, then try to sort it with GPT, then do an install from the liveCD. I'll try this tonight. -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On 1 April 2010 14:58, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:56:06AM +0100, krad wrote: we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. I configured the disks as JBOD but got the same results. I think the problem lies with all the disks each being 2TB so they can't be seen with sysinstall. maybe the way forward is to boot to live CD so there's a full environment, then try to sort it with GPT, then do an install from the liveCD. I'll try this tonight. -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 your probably right as sysinstall only handles mbr, not gpt and you will definately need gpt. ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On 31 March 2010 02:13, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. -- Adam Vande More we are testing one at work at the moment. I think its a driver issue. We are looking at either putting in a perc card or swapping it for the next chasis. ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:37:58PM +, Varan Okul wrote: Hi, I suggest you try these scenario first. 1st - At RAID controller BIOS. Create 1 small logical drive for FreeBSD installation. The rest space from RAID0, just create 2TB for each logical drive. 2nd - Boot with FreeBSD installation CD/DVD Lets see FreeBSD bootable CD/DVD can see the small logical drive created, or not? If this not work, may be the RAID controller is too new for this FreeBSD version. The CD/DVD doesn't have driver for it inside. You may need to change to older RAID controller, or move to newer FreeBSD version. Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I have an idea. Would the answer be to install the OS to a SD card, boot from that then use GPT or ZFS to see the drive once the OS is installed? What i mean is, the disks are attached to the SATA raid card. if I don't select any disks in the raid, will they be seen by the OS? then I could just use zfs for raid functionality. Freebsd 8 sees the card, just not the disks. The server has a sd slot. Maybe this is what it's for? -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 Your best bet would be to configure the drives as JBOD and see if it detects the disks. Post dmesg from that. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on the SATA card (raid0 gives about 5.4Tb) but freebsd, after sysinstall loads and I set the timezone and keyboard, won't see the disk. I am accessing the server remotely via IDRAC6. This means I have a great deal of difficulty grabbing the console with alt-f2 on bootup. I have the feeling that maybe I have to pass a parameter to freebsd boot to make it see the virtual disk. Is this the cade? Or is the card just pants? Or is it not possible to boot over 2Tb? Or perhaps I need to boot a running system from a SD card, and then make the virtual disk? Or is it a sysinstall issue? Or a card issue? Freebsd sees the card (at least freebsd-9 did) but not the disk (same as freebsd-8) FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, John comp.j...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello list I've run into a bit of an impasse with freebsd8 nd dell R710 server. Basically it has 3x 2TB disks (SATA) connected to a LSI card (on the order it is referred to as SAS6IR/PERC H200). I make the virtual disk on the SATA card (raid0 gives about 5.4Tb) but freebsd, after sysinstall loads and I set the timezone and keyboard, won't see the disk. I am accessing the server remotely via IDRAC6. This means I have a great deal of difficulty grabbing the console with alt-f2 on bootup. I have the feeling that maybe I have to pass a parameter to freebsd boot to make it see the virtual disk. Is this the cade? Or is the card just pants? Or is it not possible to boot over 2Tb? Or perhaps I need to boot a running system from a SD card, and then make the virtual disk? Or is it a sysinstall issue? Or a card issue? Freebsd sees the card (at least freebsd-9 did) but not the disk (same as freebsd-8) FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more hands on installation. If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS. In that scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use RAIDZ. Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good FreeBSD wiki articles on it. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more hands on installation. If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS. In that scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use RAIDZ. Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good FreeBSD wiki articles on it. Opps, didn't read the RAID-0 bit, still try the GPT stuff, the 2TB MBR is a hard limit. gstripe(8) would also be an option. With you're RAID-0, were you looking of for read or write speed? You can still use RAIDZ and outperform a straight stripe in most workloads if you make use of an ssd based L2ARC and a ZIL for read and writes respectively. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On 29 March 2010 15:39, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot with a size TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more hands on installation. If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS. In that scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use RAIDZ. Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good FreeBSD wiki articles on it. Opps, didn't read the RAID-0 bit, still try the GPT stuff, the 2TB MBR is a hard limit. gstripe(8) would also be an option. With you're RAID-0, were you looking of for read or write speed? You can still use RAIDZ and outperform a straight stripe in most workloads if you make use of an ssd based L2ARC and a ZIL for read and writes respectively. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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 I think his problem is he cant see a device to partition in the first place? ___ 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 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:57:08PM +0100, krad wrote: I think his problem is he cant see a device to partition in the first place? This is correct. -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 ___ 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
