kern/146287: [ciss] ciss(4) cannot see more than one SmartArray controller

Sean Bruno seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Thu May 6 18:54:33 UTC 2010


> > 
> 
> Not sure if this helps or not, but we've got about 20 of these machines, 
> as well as the DL580 version in production. I've seen this very same 
> issue on the ML series machines also. If I remember correctly, there 
> were two different PCI bridges used in the same production models, one 
> was from IBM and the other was a ServerWorks (Broadcom) chipset. One 
> didn't show up at all (not even when probed) and the other one was 
> displayed. Can't remember which was which, but I know it had to do with 
> hot-swap PCI subsystem, and I suspect this is what you're experiencing. 
> We had a similar experience with MyriCom 10GE cards in an ML570 with a 
> hot-swap PCI option. The card wouldn't show up in slot closest to the 
> Mem card (can't remember if the DL380's have a riser card for ram or if 
> this is onboard), but it worked in the next slot over.
> 
> 
> Erich M. Jenkins
> Fuujin Group Limited
> 
> 
> "You should never, never doubt what no one is sure about."
> -- Gene Wilder
> 

It does help a bit.

Basically, we need an AML dump of the ACPI information from one of the
machines that has an IBM based bridge chip.

acpidump -dt

sean



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