As you are here, you have probably noticed there is no userland tool to check the RAID/volume status of a LSI SAS2004/SAS2008 card out of the box.
Here is how to get it working!
(This probably works for all LSI cards that uses the built in mps driver, I have NOT tried all of them though)
First you need to have the same version of the lsi driver as the userland tool, at the time of writing this, it is 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)
Latest driver
Download the mpslsi driver from http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public...Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P16/Free_BSD_Driver_P16.zip
You have to accept the license agreement so you have to download it manually.
Once you have it on your server unzip it.
Now, don't ask why they have done it like this, but inside the folder you just extracted there is another zip; unzip it.
Now you have to copy the kernel module for your version of FreeBSD to the correct place. Now I'm running amd64 9.1-RELEASE so I will copy that version. You also have to give it proper permissons.
Load the new module during boot time
And you should now reboot to get the new driver running.
Userland utility
Download userland tool from http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public...Common Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P16/SAS2IRCU_P16.zip.
You have to accept the license agreement so you have to download it manually.
Once you have it on your server unzip it.
Copy the userland tool to your sbin folder and give it executable permissions
You should now be able to to interact with your RAID card.
Here is how to get it working!
(This probably works for all LSI cards that uses the built in mps driver, I have NOT tried all of them though)
First you need to have the same version of the lsi driver as the userland tool, at the time of writing this, it is 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)
Latest driver
Download the mpslsi driver from http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public...Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P16/Free_BSD_Driver_P16.zip
You have to accept the license agreement so you have to download it manually.
Once you have it on your server unzip it.
unzip Free_BSD_Driver_P16.zipNow, don't ask why they have done it like this, but inside the folder you just extracted there is another zip; unzip it.
cd Free_BSD_Driver_P16/mps2_rel tar -zxvf FREEBSD_MPS_SAS2.tar.gzNow you have to copy the kernel module for your version of FreeBSD to the correct place. Now I'm running amd64 9.1-RELEASE so I will copy that version. You also have to give it proper permissons.
cp pkg/stage/9.0.0/amd64/boot/kernel/mpslsi.ko /boot/modules/ chmod 555 /boot/modules/mpslsi.koLoad the new module during boot time
echo 'mpslsi_load="yes"' >> /boot/loader.confAnd you should now reboot to get the new driver running.
Userland utility
Download userland tool from http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public...Common Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P16/SAS2IRCU_P16.zip.
You have to accept the license agreement so you have to download it manually.
Once you have it on your server unzip it.
unzip SAS2IRCU_P16.zipCopy the userland tool to your sbin folder and give it executable permissions
cp SAS2IRCU_P16/sas2ircu_freebsd_amd64_rel/sas2ircu /usr/sbin/ chmod 555 /usr/sbin/sas2ircuYou should now be able to to interact with your RAID card.
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