On Monday 26 October 2009 3:21:10 pm pluknet wrote: > 2009/10/26 John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org>: > > Author: jhb > > Date: Mon Oct 26 18:57:57 2009 > > New Revision: 198496 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198496 > > > > Log: > > MFC 196200,196211,196280-196282: > > Introduce mfiutil, a basic utility for managing LSI SAS-RAID & Dell PERC5/6 > > controllers. Controller, array, and drive status can be checked, basic > > attributes can be changed, and arrays and spares can be created and deleted. > > Controller firmware can also be flashed. > > > > This does not replace MegaCLI, found in ports, as that is officially sanctioned > > and supported by LSI and includes vastly more functionality. However, mfiutil > > is open source and guaranteed to provide basic functionality, which can be > > especially useful if you have a problem and can't get MegaCLI to work. > > > > John, thank you very much for mfc'ing those nice mfi- and mptutil! > It's interesting to know if this can be mfc'ed to 6 safely in principle, > without breaking some of existing interfaces. > I tried to use both on 6, and my experience was quite successful.
They should both work fine on 6, though I do not have any plans to MFC them in FreeBSD itself. mfiutil has even been known to work on 4.x. :) Also, 8.0 will ship before 7.3. :) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
