Re: LSI/AVGO/Broadcom 9280-16i4e support?

> On Sep 1, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Karl Denninger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/1/2019 15:17, Chris wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I recently picked up an LSI/AVGO/Broadcom 9280-16i4e card with
>> the intent of flashing it to IT mode (pass through). So as to
>> use it in one of my servers.
>> However; looking through the Hardware (support) section of the
>> release notes for 12; the closest I found was the 9260.
>> Does anyone have any experience with the 9280-16i4e on FreeBSD?
>> Does it work? Well? If not, anytime soon?
>> 
>> Thank you very much.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
> It will PROBABLY work.
> 
> From Avago: http://www.ssdworks.com/MegaRAID-SAS-9280-16i4e.asp
> 
> LSISAS2108 6Gb/s RAID-on-Chip
> 
> From the driver in sys/dev/mps for 12-STABLE at present:
> 
> mps_pci.c:      { MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_1,
> mps_pci.c:          0xffff, 0xffff, 0, "Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2108" },
> mps_pci.c:      { MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_2,
> mps_pci.c:          0xffff, 0xffff, 0, "Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2108" },
> mps_pci.c:      { MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_3,
> mps_pci.c:          0xffff, 0xffff, 0, "Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2108" },
> 
> I wouldn't call this dispositive but it's easy enough to figure out
> (stick it in a box and boot the install media; see if it shows up during
> the probe.)
> 
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That card works on FreeBSD. I have personal experience with it. However flashing it to IT mode isn’t possible. That’s a RoC not an HBA.  The closest you can get to pass through is a bunch of single drive RAID 0 disks with the caching disabled.

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve
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