[OmniOS-discuss] Can't get OmniOS to see LSI 1068e on SuperMicro X8DTL-3F

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> I’ve got a X8DTL-3F that I’m attempting to install OmniOS onto.
>
> The installer wouldn’t see the 4x SAS disks connected to the onboard 
> LSI 1068e. prtconf -d showed that the driver wasn’t getting attached 
> to the card.

What is the storage size of the disks?  This controller has a disk 
size limit.

> How do I get these drives seen by OmniOS? (and bootable!)
>
> Additionally (while I have your attention) there are a pair of NVMe 
> drives in PCIe adapters that are also showing up as (driver not 
> attached) that I would really like to get working as those are to be 
> my SLOG devices. Samsung SM951 if it matters.

I have AHCI versions of the Samsung SM951 here that OmniOS sees and 
installed onto.  It took a BIOS update (SuperMicro) before the BIOS 
also saw the devices and could boot from them.  This is in a Xeon 
D-1450 based system.

Even with AHCI (rather than NVMe), zfs scrub reports a scrub rate 
exceeding 1.3GB/s across a pair of these devices.  They would be 
fantastic as L2ARC devices.

The NVMe driver is really new so perhaps not many devices are 
automatically recognized yet.

Bob
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