Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Denny Schierz
hi everybody, I've got FreeBSD running: FreeBSD foobar.domain 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE with our LSI 9200 SAS :-) thanks to Rumen, Jeremy and you :-) zpool with two raidz: root@iscsihead-m:/[-bash]# zpool create bigPool raidz da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 raidz da6 da7 da8 da9 da10 spare da5

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Denny Schierz linuxm...@4lin.net wrote: So, how complicated is load balancing with two Gb Network cards? :-) Ok, that should be a new thread;-) Simple as pie. Read through lagg(4) to see how it's done from the command-line using ifconfig(8). Then you put the

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Rumen Telbizov
Good job Denny, I am happy to hear you made it work. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Denny Schierz linuxm...@4lin.net wrote: So, how complicated is load balancing with two Gb Network cards? :-) Ok, that should be a new

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Rumen Telbizov telbi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Denny Schierz linuxm...@4lin.net wrote: So, how complicated is load balancing with two Gb Network cards? :-) Ok,

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-23 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Dienstag, den 22.03.2011, 02:10 +0300 schrieb Dmitry Morozovsky: and about to out it into day-to-day use 8.2-stable system, working as big-just-in-case archive with sources from Mar1 based on SuperMicro case/mobo with LSI SAS2008 + LSI expander + 24 SATA RE4 disk bays. exactly the

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi Rumen, Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2011, 11:09 -0700 schrieb Rumen Telbizov: Denny, LSI 9200-8e is based on the SAS2008 chip and the driver for that chip (mps) has recently been merged from current into stable but before 8.2-RELEASE. Therefore if you're using 8.2-RELEASE iso image to

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-21 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Denny Schierz wrote: DS LSI 9200-8e is based on the SAS2008 chip and the driver for that chip (mps) DS has recently been merged DS from current into stable but before 8.2-RELEASE. Therefore if you're using DS 8.2-RELEASE iso image to DS install FreeBSD on a SAS2008

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-21 Thread Rumen Telbizov
Booting from mps (while I had to set up gmirror, as only 12 disks are exported to BIOS, hence very large raidz's are not allowed to boot from) was not a problem either. What I did into my 48 disk machine was - create a separate 'zroot' pool comprising of 20G gpt partitions carved of off 8

SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-20 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I'm new to BSD and I want to know, if the SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e is supported under FreeBSD 8.2. We installed FreeBSD on SATA disks, but I can't see any devices through the SAS HBA, so maybe I have to load the driver first. cu denny ___

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-20 Thread Rumen Telbizov
Denny, LSI 9200-8e is based on the SAS2008 chip and the driver for that chip (mps) has recently been merged from current into stable but before 8.2-RELEASE. Therefore if you're using 8.2-RELEASE iso image to install FreeBSD on a SAS2008 system - you won't see any disks whatsoever. Unfortunately I