Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:58:02 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB Message-ID: <4E0ADB0A.2070409@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition. I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive as expected. I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD > 2TB, but this issue seems not to be a tool-issue. Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007. Thanks in advance, Oliver ========================== Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #266 r223622: Tue Jun 28 09:38:38 CEST 2011 root@thusnelda.geoinf.fu-berlin.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THUSNELDA amd64 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (2493.76-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x10676 Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping = 6 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0xce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1> AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB) avail memory = 16522498048 (15757 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <DELL PE_SC3 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5 cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu7 (AP): APIC ID: 7 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8 ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard aesni0: No AESNI support. acpi0: <DELL PE_SC3> on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi ipmi0: KCS error: ff Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 [...] mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc4fc000-0xfc4fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4effff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 mpt0: [ITHREAD] mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.14.0 mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 ) mpt0: 0 Active Volumes (2 Max) mpt0: 0 Hidden Drive Members (14 Max) [...] ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 0, firmware rev. 2.10, version 2.0 ipmi0: Number of channels 4 ipmi0: Attached watchdog da0 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <ATA Hitachi HUA72107 A74A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da0: 300.000MB/s transfers da0: Command Queueing enabled da0: 715404MB (1465149168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 91201C) da1 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <ATA WDC WD30EZRX-00M 0A80> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da1: 300.000MB/s transfers da1: Command Queueing enabled da1: 2097151MB (4294967295 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 267349C) ses0 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 8 lun 0 ses0: <DP BACKPLANE 1.05> Fixed Enclosure Services SCSI-5 device ses0: 300.000MB/s transfers ses0: SCSI-3 SES Device cd0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! cd0: <TEAC DVD-ROM DV28EV D.AE> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 65534bytes) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray closed SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #7 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #4 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #6 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #5 Launched!
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