From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 04:20:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1253106566C for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:20:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ethernext@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559C78FC08 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwe4 with SMTP id 4so1227088qwe.13 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:20:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=wxK8g/MRP3RtkQTB89aFIRUx9atIXKecFw8I6eUaCWI=; b=v0IENVgNlLJnjDIbVEtcsSG9zkRhx/CS+ZNktySE0rsZjM7Q1UJIXJBgi1kCnFoI4p fOnjh/PgaDzoESvx4sRVK9asLJCgx4bXnrd+DnoVuySNT5JF4G3HIB7x7MUPgtUf3pP0 pkuB1BqrZYJAIkrHOmfQPchBqrTl7eib7XtSE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=S4W5iF9pV2lVzYDeixecG+qv5ezl/gegMDSMQWgyUGxwe8aXnSfyGbpdZ6cJ83tkD7 OJyGwHRbpOj0pY2rmOHa+GnKmG8xwBhPJKqvByLOAOJiT3/KW12TNmYA1DDRZFbJSZH0 LmCVvq4YiJ1FWGWmQZPFcEeyVHu7vRLSioQoY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.224.136 with SMTP id io8mr4589529qcb.182.1286769295553; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Sender: ethernext@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.73.199 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:54:55 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7uIK0vz2usbfcYrXBFybFWKmSOc Message-ID: From: Bill Desjardins To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Vitesse VSC7250 (Promise EX6850) SAS/SATA controller unsupported in 8? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:20:21 -0000 Hi All, I have an Arima NM46X motherboard with a built-in Vitesse VSC 7250 SAS controller which appears to be a rebranded Promise EX8650 from what little information I could dig up. During POST all 8 drives are seen but freebsd cant see them. I've tried JBOD and RAID configurations, but nothing. I found that the last driver offered by promise is a kernel module, stex.ko, but it is for 7.1. is there any new driver for this or am i SOL? If this is something that someone could fix, I can easily provide a complete remote environment with console access. Some relative info: (let me know if you need more) NM46X ------------------------------ MB Bios has been updated to latest available, 1.08 (11/15/07) Vitesse Controller Info: ----------------------------------- Model: VSC7250 Series Firmware: 1.0.0.33 BIOS: 2.9.80.41 PCI func address: bus 09h, dev 00h, fun 00h pci base address: ca000000h sub device inid: 1001 uname ---------------------------- FreeBSD sas.ethernap.net 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Sun Oct 10 05:29:41 EDT 2010 sas@sas:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 The controller is seen by the kernel as: -------------------------- pcib9: at device 15.0 on pci0 pci9: on pcib9 pci9: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pciconf -lv: ------------------ none2@pci0:9:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x1001105a chip=0x7250105a rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device = 'Vitesse 7250 SAS RAID' class = mass storage subclass = RAID lspci -vvv -s 0:9:0.0 -------------------------------------------- 09:00.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. Device 7250 (rev 03) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Device 1001 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR-