Wiring down devices with LSI 2308 / mps?

[Karl Pielorz]

Hi,

I've got a SuperMicro board that has an onboard LSI 2308 onboard. This 
appears using the mps driver:

"
mps0: <LSI SAS2308> port 0xc200-0xc2ff mem 
0xf33c0000-0xf33cffff,0xf3380000-0xf33bffff irq 44 at device 7.0 on pci0
mps0: Firmware: 15.00.00.00, Driver: 16.00.00.00-fbsd
mps0: 
IOCCapabilities:185c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,IR>
"

I'd like to wire the devices down on this - but that doesn't seem to work :(

I tried this by putting entries in '/boot/device.hints' such as:

"
hint.scbus.0.at="mps0"

hint.da.0.at="scbus0"
hint.da.0.target="2"
hint.da.0.unit="0"

hint.da.1.at="scbus0"
hint.da.1.target="1"
hint.da.1.unit="0"
...
"

Testing though shows that maybe the controller itself is collapsing 
'missing' ports/targets?

e.g. Attach a disk to 'Port 0' - and it shows as:

 da2 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 2 lun 0

Ok, target 2? - but at least that's mapped to da2 (wiring works)

Take the disk off, and connect it to Port 1 - and it shows as:

 da2 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 2 lun 0

Port 1 is target 2 as well? - Switch the drive to 'Port 2' - and you get:

 da2 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 2 lun 0

So port 2 is also target 2? (if the others aren't occupied)

Add a 2nd drive (to any port) and you get:

 da3 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 3 lun 0


So the 'wiring down' is working - but it looks like the LSI collapses it's 
own 'missing drives'? - And starts at Target 2?

I can't see any setting in the LSI bios that would change this? - I'm 
presuming it must be possible not to have it do this - though searching the 
lists didn't turn anything obvious up...

Thanks,

-Karl