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home | helpMFI(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual MFI(4) NAME mfi -- LSI MegaRAID SAS driver SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device pci device mfi Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): mfi_load="YES" DESCRIPTION This driver is for LSI's next generation PCI Express SAS RAID con- trollers. Access to RAID arrays (logical disks) from this driver is pro- vided via /dev/mfid? device nodes. A simple management interface is also provided on a per-controller basis via the /dev/mfi? device node. The mfi 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 sup- ported by amr(4) and will not work with this driver. Two sysctls are provided to tune the mfi 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 dev.mfi.%d.delete_busy_volumes is set to 1, then the driver will allow mounted volumes to be removed. HARDWARE The mfi driver supports the following hardware: +o LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E +o LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E +o LSI MegaRAID SAS 1078 +o Dell PERC5 +o Dell PERC6 FILES /dev/mfid? array/logical disk interface /dev/mfi? management interface DIAGNOSTICS mfid%d: Unable to delete busy device An attempt was made to remove a mounted volume. SEE ALSO amr(4), pci(4), mfiutil(8) HISTORY The mfi driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.1. AUTHORS The mfi driver and this manual page were written by Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>. BUGS The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time. FreeBSD 7.2 August 15, 2009 FreeBSD 7.2
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