LSI supported mps(4) driver available

Thu Feb 2 14:58:50 UTC 2012

>> (Again clarify which version of FreeBSD you are using)

As I've stated earlier it's current snapshot from the other day, to be more
specific FreeBSD10-CURRENT r230857

Ok, I'll try to upgrade firmware.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Desai, Kashyap <Kashyap.Desai at lsi.com>wrote:

>
>
> From: Stas Orlov [mailto:sennaar at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:45 PM
> To: Desai, Kashyap
> Cc: Kenneth D. Merry; freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org;
> freebsd-current at freebsd.org; Dennis Glatting
> Subject: Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available
>
> Sure, I've made two RAID (1 and 10 ) arrays within LSI Config Utility and
> tried to install fresh current, every time I get error linked above, so
> yes, it's reproducible.
>
> -> What I understood here is, you have two raid volumes RAID1 and RAID10,
> and trying to install FreeBSD (Again clarify which version of FreeBSD you
> are using)
>
>
> Try erasing a controller FW completely and re-install everything from
> fresh.
> (Here make sure you flash completely. Hope you are aware of controller
> firmware upgrade process)
>
> Our board has DPM tables and for Raid volume it is maximum 2 entry.
> When you have more than two inactive volumes, we cannot add another raid
> volume.
> There is some implementation recently done by BIOS team related to this
> area. Where BIOS itself will erase inactive Raid volume entry from DPM
> pages.
>
> ~ Kashyap
>
>
> MPT Firmware 2.15.63.00-IR
> Package Version 7.01.33.00
>
> I do have another spare R610 with that card, I'll test it with current
> later this evening.
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Desai, Kashyap <Kashyap.Desai at lsi.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > scsi at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Stas Orlov
> > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 6:48 PM
> > To: Kenneth D. Merry
> > Cc: freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org; freebsd-current at freebsd.org; Dennis
> > Glatting
> > Subject: Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a pack of identical Dell R610 mahcines with H200 cards.
> >
> > pciconf from R610 with FreeBSD9 on ZFS, disks in JBOD mode.
> >
> > mps0 at pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x010700 card=0x1f1e1028 chip=0x00721000
> > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> >      vendor     = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
> >      device     = 'SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon]'
> >      class      = mass storage
> >      subclass   = SAS
> >      bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xfc00, size 256,
> > enabled
> >      bar   [14] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xdf2b0000, size 65536,
> > enabled
> >      bar   [1c] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xdf2c0000, size 262144,
> > enabled
> >      cap 01[50] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
> >      cap 10[68] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(4096) link x4(x8)
> >      cap 03[d0] = VPD
> >      cap 05[a8] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
> >      cap 11[c0] = MSI-X supports 15 messages in map 0x14 enabled
> >
> >
> > We all aware of the state of things with the old mps driver, so I tried
> > to
> > pass a hardware array with the new one.
> > Current snapshot from yesterday fails with following -
> > http://oi40.tinypic.com/25gdw8o.jpg
> Can you explain more about your setup and how to reproduce it ?
> I will have look on this issue if it is reproducible ?
>
> Also what is Firmware version you are using on H200 card ?
>
> ~ Kashyap
>
> >
> > iirc, Dell has a nasty habit of writing its own firmware.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 20:47:37 -0800, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 13:44 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > > > > The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their
> > 6Gb
> > > SAS
> > > > > HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/lsi/mps_lsi.20120120.1.txt
> > > > >
> > > > > I plan to check it in to head next week, and then MFC it into
> > stable/9
> > > a
> > > > > week after that most likely.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please test it out and let me know if you run into any problems.
> > > > >
> > > > > In addition to supporting WarpDrive, the driver also supports
> > > Integrated
> > > > > RAID.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks to LSI for doing the work on this driver!
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does this include the SAS2008 series chips? I have two systems, one
> > a
> > > > Tyan FT48-B8812 with a S8812 MB and Interlagos chips, where I am
> > > > interested in using a driver under 9.0 amd64.
> > >
> > > Yes.  The driver in 9.0 supports the 2008 as well.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > > --
> > > Kenneth Merry
> > > ken at FreeBSD.ORG
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