From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 18:54:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54AD1065670 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 18:54:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout1-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com (mrout1-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.107.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4A68FC12 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 18:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (proxy8.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.13]) by mrout1-b.corp.re1.yahoo.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/y.out) with ESMTP id o46IsDV1024534; Thu, 6 May 2010 11:54:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=serpent; d=yahoo-inc.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date: message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=B/uW7rbK6Etiad+DAfFE5iDBkhzEOfJ0V0Z01V8a/DwViD6RxyYvuDoElBk7XRXg From: Sean Bruno To: "Erich Jenkins, Fuujin Group Ltd" In-Reply-To: <4BE318A8.6050108@fuujingroup.com> References: <4BE083B8.6070402@intersonic.se> <20100505155946.GL30353@evil.alameda.net> <20100505184455.GN30353@evil.alameda.net> <1273087076.2487.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100505203116.GP30353@evil.alameda.net> <20100505204652.GQ30353@evil.alameda.net> <1273092737.2487.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100506014748.GR30353@evil.alameda.net> <1273165130.2465.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100506174113.GS30353@evil.alameda.net> <1273169980.2465.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4BE318A8.6050108@fuujingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:54:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1273172053.2465.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: kern/146287: [ciss] ciss(4) cannot see more than one SmartArray controller 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: Thu, 06 May 2010 18:54:33 -0000 > > > > Not sure if this helps or not, but we've got about 20 of these machines, > as well as the DL580 version in production. I've seen this very same > issue on the ML series machines also. If I remember correctly, there > were two different PCI bridges used in the same production models, one > was from IBM and the other was a ServerWorks (Broadcom) chipset. One > didn't show up at all (not even when probed) and the other one was > displayed. Can't remember which was which, but I know it had to do with > hot-swap PCI subsystem, and I suspect this is what you're experiencing. > We had a similar experience with MyriCom 10GE cards in an ML570 with a > hot-swap PCI option. The card wouldn't show up in slot closest to the > Mem card (can't remember if the DL380's have a riser card for ram or if > this is onboard), but it worked in the next slot over. > > > Erich M. Jenkins > Fuujin Group Limited > > > "You should never, never doubt what no one is sure about." > -- Gene Wilder > It does help a bit. Basically, we need an AML dump of the ACPI information from one of the machines that has an IBM based bridge chip. acpidump -dt sean