Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:16:04 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com>
To:        Jonathon Reinhart <jonathon.reinhart@gmail.com>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ciss(4) HP Smart Array P840
Message-ID:  <A69F13A0-4C3A-4E23-B01B-941D3C57CB47@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPFHKzdUdjxf1g%2BhvAqQnXCiibwmZvGSTVKaWoY_exd8TZ8tuA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAPFHKzf65eSsg0aNe5wjS1jUVeh7gd9xgvAvMVuc6Shunsc9GA@mail.gmail.com> <20151120.084410.74714437.sthaug@nethelp.no> <CAPFHKzdJ3F3ay0FQf0cwMWadSercKdg_tWap-poUeTpMe1Gn-Q@mail.gmail.com> <30640027-5C49-4AC0-9BAF-7E6208F7DD13@yahoo.com> <CAPFHKzdUdjxf1g%2BhvAqQnXCiibwmZvGSTVKaWoY_exd8TZ8tuA@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi jonathon,

Like Sean, I haven't worked on the driver in years, so my knowledge is rusty=
.  If you want to dig around in the code, you could try disabling the 'fixup=
' function in sys/deb/ciss/ciss.c that gets called on command completion.

Scott


Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 20, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Jonathon Reinhart <jonathon.reinhart@gmail.c=
om> wrote:
>=20
> I've got a little bit of time, and the system opened up, if there are
> any further tests that you'd like me to try.
>=20
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com> wrote:=

>> Very strange.  Thanks for testing FreeBSD 10.  The problem seems to be th=
at the driver thinks that the controller is NOT in JBOD mode.  There=E2=80=99=
s special code to hide component members in RAID mode; it changes the first b=
yte of the inquiry response to 0x1f.  That change indeed shows up in the res=
ults that you gave me.  I don=E2=80=99t see any significant changes in the c=
iss driver between 10.x and 11 that would explain why one driver detects the=
 card mode and the other does not.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?A69F13A0-4C3A-4E23-B01B-941D3C57CB47>