[OpenIndiana-discuss] using LSI 2308-IT onboard supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, openindiana not loading drivers?

[Ian Collins]

Ong Yu-Phing wrote:
> I have a supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD motherboard, which comes
> preconfigured with an LSI 2308 onboard in IT mode.  The disks attached
> to the onboard LSI 2308 controller can be seen in linux from both dmesg
> and fdisk output, but not in OI 148 or 151.
>
> FYI the MPT firmware in the LSI controller is 13.00.57.00-IT.
>
> When I boot up in e.g. OI 148, scanpci output finds "lsi logic / symbios
> logic sas2208 pci-express fusion-mpt sas-2", but modinfo | grep -i mpt
> doesn't show any drivers loaded.  I tried to manually load them (e.g.
> modload -p drv/kernel/amd64/mpt) but format still doesn't show the disks
> (it does show the 2x Intel 520 SSDs connected to the SATA interface,
> though).
>
> When I startup the Device Driver Manager in OI 151, it shows as Storage
> : LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS2 : UNK
> (i.e. no device driver loaded).  Right click to show more info:

The Illumos  mr_sas driver is quite new, see the earlier thread "rack 
server recommendation" for driver install hints.

-- 
Ian.