Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:54:13 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: "Erich Jenkins, Fuujin Group Ltd" <erich@fuujingroup.com> Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/146287: [ciss] ciss(4) cannot see more than one SmartArray controller Message-ID: <1273172053.2465.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4BE318A8.6050108@fuujingroup.com> References: <4BE083B8.6070402@intersonic.se> <20100505155946.GL30353@evil.alameda.net> <F4B88810-2F17-4902-8325-432B4FC08F8E@samsco.org> <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>
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> > > > 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
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