From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 17:28:29 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 881C91065678; Tue, 3 May 2011 17:28:29 +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 190BB8FC12; Tue, 3 May 2011 17:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p43HSRvf083134; Tue, 3 May 2011 21:28:27 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 21:28:27 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: "Kenneth D. Merry" In-Reply-To: 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 21:28:27 +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 17:28:29 -0000 On Tue, 3 May 2011, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: DM> DM> Well, I tried, and unfortunately I can not say that I'm happy after the DM> DM> upgrade. :( DM> DM> DM> DM> Particularly, adapter now takes *VERY* long time (>10 minutes) to initialize, DM> DM> and report as "ERROR" in BIOS utility (while seeing all 24 disks; however, it DM> DM> reports 8 x36 expanders instead of one). DM> DM> DM> DM> I can't boot the system off this array yet; will experiment further :( DM> DM> booted from USB stick, I have constantly repeating DM> DM> (ses3:mps0:0:25:0): lost device DM> (ses3:mps0:0:25:0): removing device entry DM> ses3 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 25 lun 0 DM> ses3: Fixed Enclosure Services SCSI-5 device DM> ses3: 600.000MB/s transfers DM> ses3: Command Queueing enabled DM> ses3: SCSI-3 SES Device DM> DM> for different sesN, which are detected many times: DM> DM> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) DM> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (da1,pass1) DM> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (da2,pass2) DM> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass11,da4) DM> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass12,da5) DM> at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass9,da3) DM> at scbus0 target 24 lun 0 (pass5,ses3) DM> at scbus0 target 25 lun 0 (pass19,ses5) DM> at scbus0 target 26 lun 0 (pass10,ses4) DM> at scbus0 target 27 lun 0 (pass14,ses7) DM> at scbus0 target 33 lun 0 (pass13,ses6) DM> at scbus0 target 39 lun 0 (pass3,ses0) DM> at scbus0 target 45 lun 0 (pass4,ses1) DM> at scbus0 target 51 lun 0 (pass8,ses2) DM> at scbus0 target 55 lun 0 (pass15,da7) DM> at scbus0 target 63 lun 0 (pass16,da8) DM> at scbus0 target 71 lun 0 (pass17,da9) DM> at scbus0 target 79 lun 0 (pass18,da10) DM> at scbus0 target 87 lun 0 (pass6,da11) DM> at scbus0 target 95 lun 0 (pass20,da12) DM> at scbus0 target 103 lun 0 (pass21,da13) Well, using http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16414.aspx I downgraded to version 8-fixed, and at least topology errors disappear. Just booted successfully (errm, it was a few nervous hours, to be honest :) Now I have in verbose kernel messages mps0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfb43c000-0xfb43ffff,0xfb440000-0xfb47ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 mps0: Reserved 0x4000 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xfb43c000 mps0: Firmware: 08.00.00.00 mps0: IOCCapabilities: 185c mps0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI-X vectors (15 supported) msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 256 to local APIC 0 vector 49 mps0: using IRQ 256 for MSI-X mps0: [MPSAFE] mps0: [ITHREAD] Will see whether it helps. -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------