man/man4/mfi.4

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.Dd July 15, 2013
.Dt MFI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mfi
.Nd "LSI MegaRAID SAS driver"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device pci"
.Cd "device mfi"
.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
mfi_load="YES"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This driver is for LSI's next generation PCI Express SAS RAID controllers.
Access to RAID arrays (logical disks) from this driver is provided via
.Pa /dev/mfid?
device nodes.
A simple management interface is also provided on a per-controller basis via
the
.Pa /dev/mfi?
device node.
.Pp
The
.Nm
name is derived from the phrase "MegaRAID Firmware Interface", which is
substantially different than the old "MegaRAID" interface and thus requires
a new driver.
Older SCSI and SATA MegaRAID cards are supported by
.Xr amr 4
and will not work with this driver.
.Pp
Two sysctls are provided to tune the
.Nm
driver's behavior when a request is made to remove a mounted volume.
By default the driver will disallow any requests to remove a mounted volume.
If the sysctl
.Va dev.mfi.%d.delete_busy_volumes
is set to 1,
then the driver will allow mounted volumes to be removed.
.Pp
A tunable is provided to adjust the
.Nm
driver's behaviour when attaching to a card.
By default the driver will attach to all known cards with high probe priority.
If the tunable
.Va hw.mfi.mrsas_enable
is set to 1,
then the driver will reduce its probe priority to allow
.Cd mrsas
to attach to the card instead of
.Nm .
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports the following hardware:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
LSI MegaRAID SAS 1078
.It
LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E
.It
LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E
.It
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240
.It
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260
.It
Dell PERC5
.It
Dell PERC6
.It
IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA
.It
IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA
.It
IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA
.It
IBM ServeRAID M5110 SAS/SATA
.It
IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
.It
Intel RAID Controller SRCSAS18E
.It
Intel RAID Controller SROMBSAS18E
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/mfid?" -compact
.It Pa /dev/mfid?
array/logical disk interface
.It Pa /dev/mfi?
management interface
.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "mfid%d: Unable to delete busy device"
An attempt was made to remove a mounted volume.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr amr 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr mfiutil 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 6.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver and this manual page were written by
.An Scott Long Aq Mt scottl@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh BUGS
The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time.