Re: Dell PERC H330: no disks, no volumes

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 11:07:23AM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> Oh, I wasn't aware the H330 and HBA330 are different devices!
> 
> > There is a PERC H330 and a PERC HBA330 and the Dell PERC9 user manual
> > (includes the H330) says you can boot it in HBA mode. Not sure if
> > that means that you can chose the firmware.
> Oh well. So the HBA330 is a PowerEdge RAID Controller that isn't a RAID 
> controller? Thanks, Dell marketing!
> 
> > -> This is attaching a H330 (RAID version) and it gets the mfii driver.
> > mfii0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: "PERC H330 Mini", firmware 25.5.9.0001
> OK, remains the question why I don't see any discs in bioctl.
> 
> On startup, the machine utters the following:
> 
> 	PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller BIOS
> 	Copyright(c) 2016 Avago Technologies
> 	Press <Ctrl><R> to Run Configuration Utility
> 	HA -0 (Bus 1 Dev 0) PERC H330 Mini
> 	FW package: 25.5.0.0001
> 
> 
> 	0 Non-RAID Disk(s) found on the host adapter.
> 	0 Non-RAID Disk(s) handled by BIOS
> 
> 	0 Virtual Disk(s) found on the host adapter.
> 
> 	0 Virtual Disk(s) handled by BIOS
> 
> Is this normal? The only place I see discs being recognized is in the BIOS 
> setup's controller setup.

It's not normal, and this explains why NetBSD doens't see any disks.
I don't remember the details (and it depends on the controller version),
but you need to have physical disks assigned to one (or more) RAID volume,
and then the RAID volume has to be exported as one (or more) virtual disks.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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