From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 13:36:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3FC1065675 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:36:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from useryear@mail.ru) Received: from fallback2.mail.ru (fallback2.mail.ru [94.100.176.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9B98FC08 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx39.mail.ru (mx39.mail.ru [94.100.176.53]) by fallback2.mail.ru (mPOP.Fallback_MX) with ESMTP id 7F0BD1ABD043 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:11:18 +0400 (MSD) Received: from [79.133.88.66] (port=10249 helo=[192.168.0.6]) by mx39.mail.ru with asmtp id 1O1exY-0005ME-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:11:16 +0400 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:12:13 +0400 From: Andrey Mundirov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1467646394.20100413161213@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected X-Mras: Ok Subject: LSI SAS3041E write cache X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:36:27 -0000 I have LSI SAS3041E RAID controller and FreeBSD 7.3. When I try to enable write cache on RAID array, mptutil fails with following message: # mptutil volume cache 0 enable mptutil: Reading config page failed: Invalid configuration page My configuration: # mptutil version mptutil version 1.0.3 # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: SAS3041E Board Assembly: L3-01101-04E Chip Name: C1064E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E RAID0 Stripes: 64K RAID1E Stripes: 64K RAID0 Drives/Vol: 2-10 RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2 RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10 # mptutil show config mpt0 Configuration: 1 volumes, 2 drives volume 0 (148G) RAID-1 OPTIMAL spans: drive 1 (149G) ONLINE SATA drive 0 (149G) ONLINE SATA spare pools: 0 # mptutil show volumes mpt0 Volumes: Id Size Level Stripe State Write-Cache Name 0 ( 148G) RAID-1 OPTIMAL Disabled # mptutil volume status 0 Volume 0 status: state: OPTIMAL flags: DISABLED