[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to load RAID driver
Rich
rercola at acm.jhu.edu
Tue Feb 26 18:10:26 UTC 2013
The M1015 is essentially a 9211-8i running the IR firmware with
vendor-specific bits added.
- Rich
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jason Matthews <jason at broken.net> wrote:
>
> after reviewing the original request i am a bit confused.
>
> your output says you have a megaraid card. the 9211-11 isnt megaraid.
>
> i know some of those ibm cards can be cross flashed but are you sure you have an appropriate model?
>
> j.
>
> Sent from Jasons' hand held
>
> On Feb 25, 2013, at 5:48 AM, Lawrence <lawren_giam at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a IBM ServeRAID M1015 RAID controller which I tried to cross-flash to LSA 9211-8i IT mode as mentioned in this website: http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/.
>>
>> I have a IBM x3650 M3 server which I then use with the ServeRAID M1015 raid card to test if my card is working in the IT mode as mentioned. I have tried booting using OpenIndiana 151a and 151a7 LiveCD/USB to try and detect the card. The system is able to detect the raid card but when I tried to add the drivers "mpt_sas" to the system, I got the following errors:
>>
>> root at openindiana:~# add_drv -i
>> "pci1014,3b1" mpt_sas
>> devfsadm: driver failed to attach:
>> mpt_sas
>> Warning: Driver (mpt_sas) successfully
>> added to system but failed to attach
>>
>> Feb 21 17:14:22 openindiana scsi: [ID
>> 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3410 at 9/pci1014,3b1 at 0
>> (mpt_sas0):
>> Feb 21 17:14:22 openindiana hard reset
>> failed!
>> Feb 21 17:14:22 openindiana scsi: [ID
>> 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3410 at 9/pci1014,3b1 at 0
>> (mpt_sas0):
>> Feb 21 17:14:22 openindiana mptsas
>> chip initialization failed
>> Feb 21 17:14:22 openindiana scsi: [ID
>> 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3410 at 9/pci1014,3b1 at 0
>> (mpt_sas0):
>> Feb 21 17:14:22 openindiana attach
>> failed
>>
>> Boot to the RAID controller, I gathered the following information:
>> Firmware Version: 2.70.74-1038
>> FW Package Version: 20.5.1-0014
>> FW Time: Oct 13 2010, 13:52:10
>> WebBIOS Version: 4.0-e_24-Rel
>> SubVendor ID: 0x1014
>> SubDevice ID: 0x3b1
>>
>> Doing a scanpci:
>> sudo scanpci | less #search for LSI
>> pci bus 0x0010 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device
>> 0x0073
>> LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon]
>> ===========
>>
>> So it does find the card. And then prtconf:
>> =====================
>> jack at openindiana:~$ prtconf -Dv | less #search for 73
>> pci1014,3b1 (driver name: mpt_sas)
>> Hardware properties:
>> name='pci-msix-capid-pointer' type=int items=1
>> value=000000c0
>> name='pci-msi-capid-pointer' type=int items=1
>> value=000000a8
>> name='assigned-addresses' type=int items=15
>>
>> value=81100010.00000000.00001000.00000000.00000100.83100014.00000000.92940000.00000000.00004000.8310001c.000
>> 00000.92900000.00000000.00040000
>> name='reg' type=int items=20
>>
>> value=00100000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.01100010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000100.03100014.000
>> 00000.00000000.00000000.00004000.0310001c.00000000.00000000.00000000.00040000
>> name='compatible' type=string items=13
>> value='pciex1000,73.1014.3b1.3' +
>> 'pciex1000,73.1014.3b1' + 'pciex1000,73.3' + 'pciex1000,73' +
>> 'pciexclass,010400' + 'pciexclass,0104' + 'pci1000,73.1014.3b1.3' +
>> 'pci1000,73.1014.3b1' + 'pci1014,3b1' + 'pci1000,73.3' +
>> 'pci1000,73' + 'pciclass,010400' + 'pciclass,0104'
>> name='model' type=string items=1
>> value='RAID controller'
>> name='power-consumption' type=int items=2
>> value=00000001.00000001
>> name='devsel-speed' type=int items=1
>> value=00000000
>> name='interrupts' type=int items=1
>> value=00000001
>> name='subsystem-vendor-id' type=int items=1
>> value=00001014
>> name='subsystem-id' type=int items=1
>> value=000003b1
>> name='unit-address' type=string items=1
>> value='0'
>> name='class-code' type=int items=1
>> value=00010400
>> name='revision-id' type=int items=1
>> value=00000003
>> name='vendor-id' type=int items=1
>> value=00001000
>> name='device-id' type=int items=1
>> value=00000073
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> With the OI 151a7 liveUSB, I noticed that in the Device Driver Utility, the system is saying the RAID card is misconfigured.
>>
>> I have tried using an Ubuntu LiveCD and it can see the card and is able to detect the harddisks that is attached to the card.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any similiar experience? Is there any other drivers or setting that I need to configure?
>>
>> Best Regards.
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