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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:25:36 +0530
From:      Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>
To:        Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broadcom AERO SAS adapter: JBOD personality bug
Message-ID:  <0F74B882-A0EB-44D6-80F3-28EE45749843@broadcom.com>
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Hi Borja,

It=E2=80=99s a design decision and beyond the mrsas driver=E2=80=99s control=
. Please open a ticket to Broadcom support channel and they should be able t=
o help on your queries.

Thanks,
Sumit

> On 19-Oct-2022, at 7:01 PM, Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFHi,
>=20
> Hope someone from Broadcom is still lurking here ;)
>=20
> I have seen a problem with a new Broadcom Aero SAS adapter on FreeBSD. I f=
irst detected it on TruNAS 12 but the
> issue affects FreeBSD 13.1 as well.
>=20
> The card came with RAID firmware installed (dealer fault, but with crazy d=
elivery times now I am afraid we must swallow it)
> but fortunately it has =E2=80=9CPersonalities=E2=80=9D.=20
>=20
> So, if I set it up in =E2=80=9CJBOD personality=E2=80=9D it does behave li=
ke a plain HBA. Good!
>=20
> However, I have noticed a problem in the JBOD personality. I am not sure w=
hether it is a firmware bug, a design error
> or  a problem with the mrsas driver although after a quick look at the sou=
rce code I don=E2=80=99t think the driver can
> solve this.
>=20
> After a disk failure (for example, pulling a disk from the backplane) the c=
ontroller will mark it as
> UNCONFIGURED BAD. Which is a dead end that may require a system reboot or a=
t least using a tool such as
> StorCli (if it is possible, I haven=E2=80=99t verified that yet).
>=20
> If this is a design decision I THINK THIS IS A MISTAKE. If the JBOD person=
ality is equivalent to an HBA (it should
> be!) the controller firmware should not interfere with decisions made by t=
he operating system itself.
>=20
> As for the mrsas driver, I am not sure, is there a possibility to add a tu=
nable so that can ignore the =E2=80=9Cunconfigured badness=E2=80=9D
> and proceed?=20
>=20
> The controller is a Broadcom AERO 10E2
> Firmware: 5.180.02-2512
> NVDATA version: 5.1800.21-0642
>=20
>=20
> Thanks!
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>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Borja Marcos.
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>=20

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