Re: MegaRAID 3008/3108

[Harry Waddell <waddell%caravan-epub.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:27:44 +0000 (UTC)
christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> In article <20150603111042.4fad14b2@taliesin-2.local>,
> Harry Waddell  <waddell%caravaninfotech.com@localhost> wrote:
> >On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:13:07 +0100 (BST)
> >Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone working on adding support for SYMBIOS MEGARAID 3108 (0x1000/0x005d) 
> >> or 3008 (0x1000/0x005f)? These are supported in OpenBSD by the mfii driver 
> >> which also supports the MEGARAID 2208 (0x1000/0x005b). In NetBSD, the 
> >> mfi(4) driver was extended to support the 2208 (Thunderbolt) rather than 
> >> adding a new driver. The 3008/3108 will require another MFI_IOP type 
> >> (OpenBSD call it 25).
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Stephen
> >> 
> >
> >I have a system with this on the motherboard, but I'm dropping an lsi
> >9261-i8 in 
> >because the newer cards are not supported. My vendor has told me that
> >the 9261 is near EOL, 
> >so it would be really helpful if someone could add support for the newer LSI 
> >cards. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience in this area.
> 
> Shouldn't be too hard to do... As long someone has a card to test...
> 
> christos
> 

I just double checked my invoice and the MB has an embedded 3108
hooked up to 7 sata and 1 ssd drive ( for cachecade ).
 
I don't need to put this into production immediately, so I 
can test something during the next few days.
After that, it will be hard  to test with drives hooked up as
the cables are not the same for it and the 9261. Just seeing if the 
hw get recognized without drives attached would be easy enough. 

I should be getting two more identical systems in the next few months,
so I could test it with one of those too. The plan is to put
netbsd-7 on these, but I could boot a current kernel if needed. 

Harry Waddell