Freebsd 7 amd64 need clarification on SAS controller

 We currently have a box that have this specs for freebsd 7
64 bit:

Dual Core Intel XEON processor 5000 1333MHZ
Intel 5000 chipset family
1 GB min fully buffered memory
4 x 146GB SAS drives
Lan Intel 82563EB dual port controller
LSI 1068 SAS Contoller

I have a LSI 1068 SAS controller but on my dmesg.boot this
is the output:

mfi0: <LSI MegaSAS 1064R> mem
0xb8b00000-0xb8b0ffff,0xb8900000-0xb891ffff irq 18 at device
14.on pci4
mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 2.00

I've checked the freebsd site and the LSI 106x family should
have mpt drivers but my dmesg.boot says mfi.

Also there is this

hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008
10:34:18)
hptrr: no controller detected.

Since I do not have a HPT RocketRAID controller why does it
still load in on the boot up?

is there an explanation for this? Will I have any problems
if I push freebsd 7 64 bit on this box?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

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> Also there is this
> 
> hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24
2008
> 10:34:18)
> hptrr: no controller detected.
> 
> Since I do not have a HPT RocketRAID controller why
does it still load in on the boot up?
> 
> is there an explanation for this?

Comment out the line
	device         hptrr           # Highpoint RocketRAID 17xx,
22xx, 23xx, 25xx
in your kernel config file, build and install a new kernel,
and the confusing message should go away.
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On Thursday 17 April 2008 11:56:49 pm chilo wrote:
>  We currently have a box that have this specs for
freebsd 7 64 bit:
> 
> Dual Core Intel XEON processor 5000 1333MHZ
> Intel 5000 chipset family
> 1 GB min fully buffered memory
> 4 x 146GB SAS drives
> Lan Intel 82563EB dual port controller
> LSI 1068 SAS Contoller
> 
> I have a LSI 1068 SAS controller but on my dmesg.boot
this is the output:
> 
> mfi0: <LSI MegaSAS 1064R> mem
0xb8b00000-0xb8b0ffff,0xb8900000-0xb891ffff 
irq 18 at device 14.on pci4
> mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 2.00
> 
> I've checked the freebsd site and the LSI 106x family
should have mpt 
drivers but my dmesg.boot says mfi.

No, mfi is correct.  Assuming you want to do RAID you will
be much happier 
with mfi(4) (a real RAID controller with on-board cache and
optional battery 
back-up, etc.) compared to mpt(4) anyway.

-- 
John Baldwin
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