Re: Drives not found on mfii PERC H330 in HBA mode?

[Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 11:17 PM <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
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> I have picked up a Dell T440 which comes with a PERC H330, supported by the mfii driver.
>
> Configured in RAID mode everything seems happy, but in HBA mode the drives are not detected. Booting a Linux Mint USB drive shows the drives just fine.
>
> Dmesg fragment with three drives in RAID mode, one physical disk per virtual disk:
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> mfii0 at pci8 dev 0 function 0: "PERC H330 Adapter", firmware 25.5.9.0001
> mfii0: interrupting at msix5 vec 0
> scsibus0 at mfii0: 32 targets, 8 luns per target
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 32 enclosure 32
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 0 enclosure 32
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 1 enclosure 32
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 2 enclosure 32
> scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC H330 Adp, 4.30> disk fixed
> sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <DELL, PERC H330 Adp, 4.30> disk fixed
> sd2 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <DELL, PERC H330 Adp, 4.30> disk fixed
> sd3 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <USB, SanDisk 3.2Gen1, 1.00> disk removable
>
> Dmesg fragment with three drives in HBA mode, drives not found:
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> mfii0 at pci8 dev 0 function 0: "PERC H330 Adapter", firmware 25.5.9.0001
> mfii0: interrupting at msix5 vec 0
> scsibus0 at mfii0: 32 targets, 8 luns per target
> mfii0: autoconfiguration error: unable to register with sysmon (rv = 86)
> mfii0: autoconfiguration error: unable to create sensors
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 32 enclosure 32
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 0 enclosure 32
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 1 enclosure 32
> mfii0: physical disk inserted id 2 enclosure 32
>
> Tried -current as well as -11. Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> David

Hi,

Looking at OpenBSD code, it looks like NetBSD doesn't implement
"physical" discs support, thus disks won't attached in HBA mode.

Basically RAID mode is the only supported now.

Don't know why it was not ported and how difficult it would be to do it.

Regards,
Andrius V