Re: OpenBSD-7.4 install cannot see any disks

On 2/13/24 11:14, Sad Clouds wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to install OpenBSD on sparc64 where all disks are
> connected to LSI 9261-8i PCIe RAID card. There is mfi(4) driver, but
> this does not seem to be present during install and it cannot see any
> disks.
>
> Any suggestions? Do I need to build distribution from source and
> manually include the driver in kernel config?
>
> Thanks.
>
Hello,

Assuming you have OpenBSD src downloaded, looking in
/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf/GENERIC and
/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/RAMDISK, you can see that the mfi(4) driver is
not specified there, meaning it won't be built into the system. This is
true even if the man page for it is there.  I'm not an authority on the
topic, but there is probably a good reason it's not included there. My
recommendation would be to bypass your RAID card entirely (i.e.
uninstall it), and take a look at softraid(4) if you need disk array
capabilities.

cheers!~
Rory