On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:39:30AM +0600, Anton Maksimenkov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Reading through misc archives I found this post
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112454454105020&w=2
> Currently I got number of IBM ServeRAID 4M controllers (plus
> batteries packs) in couple with some IBM machines (eServer 6BY and
> some other models). It's dramatic for me because of "some ServeRaid
> cards are supported and some are not". And of course I have to to ask
> - is the ServeRAID 4M supported (some how)? When I tried to install
> 3.9 on it the installer ends with "no disk found"...
>
> But the card is at least recognized as (full dmesg below):
> "IBM ServeRAID" rev 0x00 at pci1 dev 7 function 0 not configured
> I want to know what does mean that message? Is the card MAY work
> (after some)? May be some BIOS, card BIOS or UKC options must be
> carefully set?
'not configured' typically means the kernel knows what it is, but
doesn't know what to do with it.
> I searched through /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs and found some claws
> for "ServeRAID", but not found "ServeRAID" elsewhere... I tried to
> reproduce my searches with ami (MegaRAID - I added that card to that
> machine for experimental reasons) and I found some - man page, some
> claws in src. So where the definitions for ServeRAID? I respect
> developers anger about IBM behaviour...
> But if job for these controllers was already DONE and it might work
> somehow - so can I use it?
I'm not a developer or a hardware guru, so I'll not comment on the
likelihood of it being supported 'soon' (for values of soon in 'it's
in -current', 'undergoing testing', 'partially done', 'someone is
working on it', 'someone is interested', 'it would be neat to have').
Joachim
