Re: mfi and Dell PERC 6/i

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Danilo Baio <danilobaio_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ian FREISLICH <ianf_at_clue.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Danilo Baio wrote:
>> > > Scott Long wrote:
>> > > The firmware on the controller crashed.  The best I can suggest is to
>> look
>> > > for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or
>> Dell
>> > > tech-support and report the problem.  In the past, there have been
>> bugs with
>> > > patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look
>> at
>> > > disabling that option.
>>
>> Dell will not be interested unless the adapter is running the most
>> recent firmware.
>>
>> > Intersting, patrol read is automatic and before crash show on the logs
>> that
>> > patrol read has started.
>> >
>> > I disabled this feature, rebooted the server and didn't show that
>> firmware
>> > error...
>> >
>> > I will test for some days.
>>
>> Dell, (maybe) Scott and I recomend that you ensure you're on the
>> latest firmware:
>>
>> [firewall2] ~ # mfiutil -u0 show adapter
>> mfi0 Adapter:
>>    Product Name: PERC 6/i Adapter
>>   Serial Number: 1122334455667788
>>        Firmware: 6.2.0-0013
>>     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50
>>  Battery Backup: present
>>           NVRAM: 32K
>>  Onboard Memory: 256M
>>  Minimum Stripe: 8K
>>  Maximum Stripe: 1M
>>
>> I'm sure there are bugs on this firmware too, but reading the fixes
>> that were made between the version that came on the adapter and
>> this version were Truely Frightening.
>>
>> It's trivial to update the firmware with the mfiutl program.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> --
>> Ian Freislich
>>
>
>
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> It´s already running the last one.
>
> bazinga# mfiutil -u0 show adapter
> mfi0 Adapter:
> Product Name: PERC 6/i Integrated
>
> Serial Number: 1122334455667788
> Firmware: 6.2.0-0013
> RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50
> Battery Backup: present
> NVRAM: 32K
> Onboard Memory: 256M
> Minimum Stripe: 8K
> Maximum Stripe: 1M
>
>
> bazinga# mfiutil -u0 show firmware
>
> mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 6.2.0-0013
> mfi0 Firmware Images:
> Name Version Date Time Status
> APP 1.22.02-0612 Mar 30 2009 14:41:22 active
> BIOS 2.04.00 active
> BCON 1.1-46-e_15-Rel Mar 2 2008 14:06:08 active
> CTLR 1.02-015B Jan 27 2009 12:02:58 active
> PCLI 01.00-023:#%00006 Nov 25 2008 17:21:50 active
> BTBL 1.00.00.01-0011 Nov 27 2007 18:29:20 active
> bazinga#
>
>
> It is the last one that i've found on dell website:
> http://ftp.us.dell.com/SAS-RAID/R216023.txt
>
> This is a firmware release for the Dell PERC 6/i Adapter.
>
> Component Current Version Previous Version
>
> Package 6.2.0-0013 6.1.1-0047
> Firmware 1.22.02-0612 1.21.02-0528
> Bootblock 1.00.00.01-0011 1.00.00.01-0011
> Ctrl-R 1.02.015B 1.02.014B
>
>


Hi guys,

Solved my problem.

The support DELL replaced the battery and the problem persisted, so they
replaced all the controller for a new one and solved the problem.

Today this controller is running on a production/stress server with no
problem, uptime 31 days.
FreeBSD 8.1
Raid 1 (2 disks sata 500) and Raid 10 (four disks sas 15k)

Thank you all.



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