From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 19:21:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11C2106566C for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:21:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cowens@greatbaysoftware.com) Received: from portcityhosting.com (bayringfw.portcityweb.com [64.140.243.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD038FC1D for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([173.14.128.81]) by portcityhosting.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:21:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4B75AB2D.2090306@greatbaysoftware.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:25:33 -0500 From: Charles Owens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000 Subject: mptutil(8) segfault on IBM xSeries 3550 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:21:07 -0000 Howdy, We're working with IBM hardware (xSeries 3550) that has an mpt-based RAID controller... after initial success with testing the mptutil utility, now operations other than "show adapter" and "show volume" are resulting in segfaults. While it was working properly we created and removed volumes several times, force-failed drives, and just generally put it through its paces... and all seemed fine. Then, after a reboot, it suddenly started failing with segfault as described, and nothing we do has helped to get it out of this state (including trying to use the LSI in-BIOS manager to create/delete volumes -- which in and of itself works fine). We found recent thread http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4B56CD4C.80503 and hoped that it might somehow relate... and even tried the patch that John Baldwin posted, but to no avail. Has anyone seen this behavior and/or have a suggested fix or workaround? Here's the output of "mptutil show adapter": mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: SR-BR10i Board Assembly: L3-25116-01H Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E RAID0 Stripes: 64K RAID1E Stripes: 64K RAID0 Drives/Vol: 1-10 RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2 RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10 This work is being done using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 + PAE. Thank very much, Charles -- Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc.