LSI supported mps(4) driver available

Fri Feb 3 08:10:40 UTC 2012

From: Stas Orlov [mailto:sennaar at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:29 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

>> (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:

>> 
Can you switch your mail client to default <text mode> reply. It is always turning into html format and difficult for inline reply.
I have done some analysis on of your logs provided at "http://oi40.tinypic.com/25gdw8o.jpg"

1. it seems Driver is somehow not handling error condition which should be better handled at driver.
    e.a driver does not reinit HBA if any config request time out.
    I will add this feature sometime later, since I have some more item queued up as well.
2. Your logs mentioned there are three different handled got from FW to add as Bare Drive. (it is not a volume entry)
So just curious to know why those entries are coming as bare drive. ? (do you have any other bare drives in your topology ? )

` Kashyap

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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