LSI SAS HBAs (mps) utility

[Alan Somers]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I don't think it has been covered in this list. Searching for the Holy Grail of disk identification I stumbled upon this:
> https://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/Host%20Bus%20Adapters/Host%20Bus%20Adapters%20Common%20Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P12/SAS2IRCU_User_Guide.pdf
>
> There is a FreeBSD command for the following LSI Logic controllers:
>
>
> LSISAS2004
> LSISAS2008
> LSISAS2108
> LSISAS2208
> LSISAS2304
> LSISAS2308
>
>
> The  program is called sas2ircu, and it can be downloaded doing a search for HBAs, LSI SAS9211-8i, all asset  types,
> and it can be found under "Miscellaneous", it's called SAS2IRCU_P18.
>
> There are commands to show a list of controllers, show the configurations, etc.
>
> Interestingly, the utility seems to be oriented to "IR" cards, *but* it can poke my "IT" card without issues. At least it can show me
> a list of drives, together with the slots where the drives are plugged. *BUT* it doesn't seem to find the real slots. sigh.

What do you mean, it doesn't find the "real" slots?  What are you
expecting to see?  Do you have a SAS expander in this system?  If so,
you have some hope of seeing useful information about the physical
position of a drive.  If not, then you won't get much better than
knowing which SAS port is connected to a drive.

>
> Any other interesting utility I should be aware of?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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> root at pruebassd:~ # sas2ircu list
> LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
> Version 18.00.00.00 (2013.11.18)
> Copyright (c) 2009-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
>
>          Adapter      Vendor  Device                       SubSys  SubSys
>  Index    Type          ID      ID    Pci Address          Ven ID  Dev ID
>  -----  ------------  ------  ------  -----------------    ------  ------
>    0     SAS2008     1000h    72h   00h:43h:00h:00h      1028h   1f1ch
> SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.
> root at pruebassd:~ # sas2ircu 0 display
> LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
> Version 18.00.00.00 (2013.11.18)
> Copyright (c) 2009-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> Read configuration has been initiated for controller 0
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Controller information
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Controller type                         : SAS2008
>   BIOS version                            : 7.35.00.00
>   Firmware version                        : 18.00.00.00
>   Channel description                     : 1 Serial Attached SCSI
>   Initiator ID                            : 0
>   Maximum physical devices                : 255
>   Concurrent commands supported           : 3432
>   Slot                                    : 3
>   Segment                                 : 0
>   Bus                                     : 67
>   Device                                  : 0
>   Function                                : 0
>   RAID Support                            : No
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> IR Volume information
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Physical device information
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Initiator at ID #0
>
> Device is a Hard disk
>   Enclosure #                             : 1
>   Slot #                                  : 0
>   SAS Address                             : 4433221-1-0300-0000
>   State                                   : Ready (RDY)
>   Size (in MB)/(in sectors)               : 488386/1000215215
>   Manufacturer                            : ATA
>   Model Number                            : OCZ-VERTEX4
>   Firmware Revision                       : 1.5
>   Serial No                               : OCZ1NFHW58H59644U7Y
>   GUID                                    : N/A
>   Protocol                                : SATA
>   Drive Type                              : SATA_SSD
>
> Device is a Hard disk
>   Enclosure #                             : 1
>   Slot #                                  : 1
>   SAS Address                             : 4433221-1-0200-0000
>   State                                   : Ready (RDY)
>   Size (in MB)/(in sectors)               : 488386/1000215215
>   Manufacturer                            : ATA
>   Model Number                            : OCZ-VERTEX4
>   Firmware Revision                       : 1.5
>   Serial No                               : OCZ5JAHC862Y945IB7L
>   GUID                                    : N/A
>   Protocol                                : SATA
>   Drive Type                              : SATA_SSD
>
>
>
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