Is it mfi or mps for LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i?
According to
this page, your MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i card uses the "LSISAS2008" SAS controller.
According to
this page, the
mps driver should handle your "LSISAS2008" controller.
The
mfi driver man page doesn't seem to mention your card or controller.
I am using the mps driver, but I never tried the installer. I installed manually on the command line, using
this guide, because I wanted a ZFS mirror root file system.
Where I need to supply this command?
On a FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE, which does not come with mps, I added the mps.ko file to
/boot/kernel/ and typed
# kldload mps and then added to my
/boot/loader.conf:
And then later I switched to 8.2-STABLE-2011.09.27 (due to
severe ZFS instability in 8.2 RELEASE and 8.2-STABLE-2011-05).
And later switched to the
mpslsi driver, and changed the above lines to:
Code:
mps_load="NO"
mpslsi_load="YES"
So give the manual install a try to see if it is any different. Or try the FixIt shell to load the driver (which as far as I know is loaded by default in anything later than 8.2-STABLE), check that the disks work, and then go back to the installer. Or try the lsi driver (I tried it to see if it fixed
some SCSI timeouts though, not disk detection)
Also one more note, I had a similar problem on my server but not on a virtual machine, where when booting off of (forget which one) 8.2 Release or Stable, it had some strange behavior, like not detecting my CD-ROM to run the FixIt shell, until I went to the options and selected something like "refresh devices". So you could try that too.
