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27.Dd January 24, 2013
28.Dt MFI 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm mfi
32.Nd "LSI MegaRAID SAS driver"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device pci"
39.Cd "device mfi"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a
43module at boot time, place the following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46mfi_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49This driver is for LSI's next generation PCI Express SAS RAID controllers.
50Access to RAID arrays (logical disks) from this driver is provided via
51.Pa /dev/mfid?
52device nodes.
53A simple management interface is also provided on a per-controller basis via
54the
55.Pa /dev/mfi?
56device node.
57.Pp
58The
59.Nm
60name is derived from the phrase "MegaRAID Firmware Interface", which is
61substantially different than the old "MegaRAID" interface and thus requires
62a new driver.
63Older SCSI and SATA MegaRAID cards are supported by
64.Xr amr 4
65and will not work with this driver.
66.Pp
67Two sysctls are provided to tune the
68.Nm
69driver's behavior when a request is made to remove a mounted volume.
70By default the driver will disallow any requests to remove a mounted volume.
71If the sysctl
72.Va dev.mfi.%d.delete_busy_volumes
73is set to 1,
74then the driver will allow mounted volumes to be removed.
75.Sh HARDWARE
76The
77.Nm
78driver supports the following hardware:
79.Pp
80.Bl -bullet -compact
81.It
82LSI MegaRAID SAS 1078
83.It
84LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E
85.It
86LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E
87.It
88LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240
89.It
90LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260
91.It
92Dell PERC5
93.It
94Dell PERC6
95.It
96IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA
97.It
98IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA
99.It
100IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA
101.It
102IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
103.It
104Intel RAID Controller SRCSAS18E
105.It
106Intel RAID Controller SROMBSAS18E
107.El
108.Sh FILES
109.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/mfid?" -compact
110.It Pa /dev/mfid?
111array/logical disk interface
112.It Pa /dev/mfi?
113management interface
114.El
115.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
116.Bl -diag
117.It "mfid%d: Unable to delete busy device"
118An attempt was made to remove a mounted volume.
119.El
120.Sh SEE ALSO
121.Xr amr 4 ,
122.Xr pci 4 ,
123.Xr mfiutil 8
124.Sh HISTORY
125The
126.Nm
127driver first appeared in
128.Fx 6.1 .
129.Sh AUTHORS
130The
131.Nm
132driver and this manual page were written by
133.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org .
134.Sh BUGS
135The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time.
136