RE: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

From: Desai, Kashyap <Kashyap.Desai_at_lsi.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:37:19 +0530


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stas Orlov [mailto:sennaar_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:54 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
> 
> Sorry for the swarm of screenshots :)
> 
> Spare drive should be a iDRAC Virtual usb.
> 
> On that particular machine, as I said, two RAID arrays (1 and 10)

Is this all SATA drives part of your raid1 and raid10 ?

> 
> http://oi39.tinypic.com/10hlfmg.jpg -- they initialized as they should.
> 
> http://oi43.tinypic.com/2db83g8.jpg -- loader recognizes 3 disks (3rd
> one is the iDRAC usb as I suppose)
> 
> So, I flashed the FW and installed the latest one from Dell
> (7.15.08.00 \ 7.03.05.00), and things have gone slightly better.
> 
> http://oi39.tinypic.com/69dtuq.jpg -- controller .
> 
> http://oi44.tinypic.com/10s6jxi.jpg -- still.
> 

I am debugging this issue. ! I can understand the issue, but not sure how to progress.
Do you willing to make more test with my debug builds ?

Here In my setup I am not able to reproduce the issue.

~ Kashyap

> http://oi42.tinypic.com/ipmh37.jpg -- It boots in single user, in
> multiuser it prints probe errors, skips them and hang on the daemon
> startup.
> 
> http://oi43.tinypic.com/13yhz02.jpg -- in single user they
> initialized\UFSed\mounted just fine.
> 
> To sum everything up, FW upgrade helped, still some device handle
> errors and SCSI errors, hangs in multiuser-mode(may or may not be
> related).
> 
> Tested with the same FreeBSD10-CURRENT r230857, I saw ken@'s commit to
> -STABLE and will try it somewhere tomorrow.
> Thanks for your time:)

> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Desai, Kashyap <Kashyap.Desai_at_lsi.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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