So far working with them the drivers they have provided will not compile under FreeBSD 13.0 so I am going back and forth with them on it. Still nothing functional as of right now.
Replacing a 9361-8i with 9560-16i and need to swap cables for backplane
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Have you considered to switch to a different Linux flavor that has wider/easier driver support? Few popular OSes I already mentioned earlier.
Not at the moment - all servers here are baremetal FreeBSD or ESX. There is no Linux onsite and I am trying to avoid a one off. The Broadcom guys claim they are willing to troubleshoot and fix the drivers in the OS and check it into the FreeBSD code branches and genuinely seem like they want to. They are NOT distributing downloadable drivers any longer for FreeBSD though.
Are you saying Broadcom won't have downloadable FreeBSD driver for the newest SAS39xx or 38xx chips any more and it won't be in their roadmap? Though they have the driver for the previous generation controller ships (SAS35xx or SAS36xx).
Would you mind to tell if all of your setup in discussion is for the business environment or just for your personal homelab?
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Broadcom will no longer have FreeBSD drivers downloadable from their website. They will support the native drivers distributed in FreeBSD's distro only. The downside is that for example, the current driver included has some major issues and even once they fix them, they will check that into the STABLE branch and that will not be something normal folk under the RELEASE branch will get quickly so its a bit annoying. But support is still there I guess.
I operate an IT consulting business and this specific infrastructure is setup for the business (though its run out of my house). I have separate gear I use for personal junk.
Yes, they pulled all downloadable drivers and claim they will continue to support drivers released within the FreeBSD distributions only. My current issues have them working on testing as they clearly did not do much testing. The problem is my experience has been that for the past 5 years the native drivers have always had problems with R1 arrays and its literally one line of code that has to be removed and recompiled to fix it (the downloadable drivers never had that issue).
Firmware is still posted if I recall but drivers weren't. Did they pull firmware now too?
The entire page is gone along with all other RAID cards except the 9560.
https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/raid-controllers/megaraid-9460-16i
https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/raid-controllers/megaraid-9460-16i
Interesting, even looking at the download pages and searching for all are now limited to the 95xx series only while the firmware downloads do support the 9460 in many cases, older stuff is gone.
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They are still downloadable. They moved them ( 94xx and older product ) to the "Legacy Product" For example, here's is the download link for the latest 9460-16i firmware (released in Dec 2021) :
Broadcom Inc. | Connecting Everything
docs.broadcom.com
See my previous reply. They are still downloadable . But you have to search harder under "Legacy Product'Interesting, even looking at the download pages and searching for all are now limited to the 95xx series only while the firmware downloads do support the 9460 in many cases, older stuff is gone.
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Good call - looks like legacy shows everything going back to 3ware - Support Documents and Downloads