DELL R330 + PERC H330 SAS

RobEmery

Hello,

We found that some new Dell R330 using PERC H330 HBAs would install PFSense 2.2.x+ using the 25.3.0.0016 firmware on the H330. We experienced some issues with the RAID and promptly upgraded to the 25.4.0.0017 firmware which would freeze on boot (see attached). However we found that using the mrsas driver (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mrsas&sektion=4) it worked correctly.

Therefore our installation procedure consists of:

Boot the installer
Hit escape on the loader prompt
- set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"
- boot
Install as usual
On reboot, hit escape when booting from the disk to the loader prompt
Again enable mrsas and boot by doing:
- set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"
- boot
When booted we need to make the change permanent by creating /boot/loader.conf.local and adding hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1" to the bottom

Is there any reason why pfsense doesn't have mfi set to enable mrsas out of the box? I presume there's an easier way of doing this?

If upgrading an existing install we found that we needed to (prior to upgrading):

Edit /boot/loader.conf.local
Add: hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"

I hope this saves some people time!
-Rob
R330+H330_BootFailure.png
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DavidAdl

Thank you, yes we experienced the same behaviour with our DELL R330 with PERC H330 and this procedure fixed it for us. Much appreciated! :)

andresp

Hi, sorry to bother, im having this same issue with this raid controller and im stuck really bad with this and im confused with the steps since i never used freebsd. Any help would be really appreciated.

enderyelkenci

Hi,

Thank you. I was having the same problems on Dell R230. I fixed the problem.

Best Regards.

itd

Hi

Same issues here. Had I found this post a little bit earlier.
Was trying to install pfSense 2.3.2 on a Dell R630 box (2 SAS disks, RAID1, PERC H730 RAID controller). Installing on a single disk was no problem, but as soon as the controller was configured in RAID1, I had the very same error messages.

Post also much appreciated! :)

Thanks and best regards
S.

jeffersondavila

SUCESSO!

Acabei de seguir os passos recomendados no post do @RobEmery e tive sucesso em meu hardware Dell PowerEdge R630.

PERC H330 Mini (Embedded)
Firmware Version: 25.5.9.0001
Drive Version: 4.23
HBA mode

State: Non-RAID em todos os SSDs

Muito obrigado!