Re: Available options for managing mfi(4) with NetBSD 6.0? (Linux MegaCli)

[Hugo Silva <hugo%barafranca.com@localhost>]

On 11/08/12 14:15, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0000, Hugo Silva wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering what other people are using to manage mfi devices from
>> NetBSD. Apparently there are no options besides bioctl (limited
>> functionality) and to replace a failed disk one to reboot the machine.
>>
>>
>> Found http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2012/09/16/msg014001.html
>> but it appears to be related to current only.
> 
> This has been commied to and pulled up to netbsd-6.
> 

Could you share how you got MegaCli to work ?


I've been trying to get it to play nicely and here's what I did so far:

 - Installed suse_base-12.1nb3 (binary would not run without this)
 - Got the MegaCli zip, ran the following locally, uploading the
relevant files to the server:
  -  rpm2cpio.pl MegaCli-8.04.07-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -ivd
./opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/libstorelibir-2.so.13.05-0
  - rpm2cpio.pl MegaCli-8.04.07-1.noarch.rpm | cpio -ivd
./opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64
 -  mount_procfs -o linux procfs /emul/linux/proc

 At this point MegaCli64 runs, but it can't find the controller:

# ./MegaCli64 -PDList -a0

User specified controller is not present.
Failed to get CpController object.

Exit Code: 0x01