From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 13:52:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6469106564A; Tue, 3 May 2011 13:52:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621588FC13; Tue, 3 May 2011 13:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p43DqQHf080494; Tue, 3 May 2011 17:52:26 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:52:26 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: "Kenneth D. Merry" In-Reply-To: <20110503034737.GA52416@nargothrond.kdm.org> Message-ID: References: <20110430211927.GA67374@nargothrond.kdm.org> <20110503034737.GA52416@nargothrond.kdm.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 03 May 2011 17:52:26 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mps driver instability under stable/8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 13:52:29 -0000 On Mon, 2 May 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM> It looks like you have a SAS2008, with the 4.0 firmware. I think it would KDM> be worthwhile to upgrade to the 9.0 firmware. I know for sure there are KDM> issues with the 2.0 firmware, and I know the 9.0 firmware works fairly KDM> well. I don't know whether the 4.0 firmware has any severe issues, but it KDM> would be good to eliminate firmware bugs before we chase driver issues. [snip] KDM> Well, I think the first thing to do is upgrade the firmware and see if that KDM> fixes it. Well, I tried, and unfortunately I can not say that I'm happy after the upgrade. :( Particularly, adapter now takes *VERY* long time (>10 minutes) to initialize, and report as "ERROR" in BIOS utility (while seeing all 24 disks; however, it reports 8 x36 expanders instead of one). I can't boot the system off this array yet; will experiment further :( -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------