Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:52:38 +0100 From: Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> To: pathiaki2@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell EMC Boss on R7425 Message-ID: <C8267B38-A368-4FA0-A0F0-E0E92A08EF2D@lysator.liu.se>
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Hi! On Fri Jul 19 11:55:43 UTC 2019 you wrote about problems with FreeBSD = 11.3 and the Dell EMC BOSS-S1 controller on the Freebsd-Hardware mailing = list: > I'm trying to see the NVME m.2 drives that are on a Dell R7425. The = UEFI/BIOS sees the controller and the M.2 drives on it. The controller = is BOSS-S1 (??) >=20 > I'm on FreeNAS running 11.3 of FreeBSD. > I don't see the controller in dmesg, pciconf, or camcontrol. :( > Does anyone know what the issue is? Is there no driver? I read the = forums and it seems that this was addressed back in 2017. Regression? = Nothing in pciconf jumps out at me as being a disk controller.... = (please point it out if you see it....) Any other tools I can use to = find this thing? We=E2=80=99ve seen similar problems with FreeBSD not detecting it on our = Dell R740xd servers - but it seems to be firmware-related. With the original BOSS-S1 firmware (2.5.13-2008) it works. Also works = with -2009.=20 > # zpool status zroot > pool: zroot > state: ONLINE > scan: resilvered 967M in 0 days 00:00:15 with 0 errors on Thu Jan 16 = 14:41:21 2020 > config: >=20 > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 > mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada0p4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada1p4 ONLINE 0 0 0 >=20 > errors: No known data errors > ahci2: <Marvell 88SE9230 AHCI SATA controller> port = 0x8028-0x802f,0x8034-0x8037,0x8020-0x8027,0x8030-0x8033,0x8000-0x801f = mem 0xb8800000-0xb88007ff at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci9 > ahci2: AHCI v1.20 with 3 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported > ahci2: quirks=3D0x900<NOBSYRES,ALTSIG> > ahcich14: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci2 > ahcich15: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci2 > ahcich16: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci2 > ada0 at ahcich14 bus 0 scbus17 target 0 lun 0 > ada1 at ahcich15 bus 0 scbus18 target 0 lun 0 However, with the latest firmware - 2.5.13-3022 - the boot block is = read, and then kernel is loaded but when ZFS is trying to mount the root = pool it can=E2=80=99t detect any disks and the domes output doesn=E2=80=99= t detect the disks. I=E2=80=99m currently in the (slow) process of trying to figure out at = what firmware level it stops working=E2=80=A6 - Peter
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