Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:39:15 +1300 From: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> To: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu> Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Karli_Sj=C3=B6berg?= <karli.sjoberg@slu.se>, "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cannot replace broken hard drive with LSI HBA Message-ID: <1A19B1E0-FC2F-4847-A3BA-E6F694589E4E@nevada.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <560AF6AD.3010803@physics.umn.edu> References: <1443447383.5271.66.camel@data-b104.adm.slu.se> <5609578E.1050606@physics.umn.edu> <1443507440.5271.72.camel@data-b104.adm.slu.se> <560AF6AD.3010803@physics.umn.edu>
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> On 30/09/2015, at 9:38 am, Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu> wrote: >=20 > On 9/29/2015 1:17 AM, Karli Sj=C3=B6berg wrote: >>>=20 >>> Regarding your experience with firmware 20, I believe it is "known = bad", >>> though some seem to disagree. Certainly when building my recent-ish >>> large 9.3 servers I specifically tested it and got consistent data >>> corruption. There is now a newer release of firmware 20 , = "20.00.04.00" >>> which seems to be fixed - see this thread: >>>=20 >>> = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-August/006793.html >>=20 >> No, firmware 20.00.04.00 and driver 20.00.00.00-fbsd was the one that >> was used when ZFS freaked out, so it=C2=B4s definitely not fixed. >>=20 >> I think this calls for a bug report. >=20 > That is curious, since I could rapidly get data corruption with = firmware 20.00.00.00, yet ran a stress test for about a week with = 20.00.04.00 with no issues. That was with FreeBSD 9.3, but I just = updated my test system to 10.2, and it has been running the same stress = test for 4-5 hours again with no issues. I don't doubt your experience = at all, of course, but I wonder what is different? >=20 > For what it's worth, my test machine is a Dell R610 with Dell TYVGC = HBA (unclear whether this is a 9207-8e or 9205-8e), and WD Red drives in = a Supermicro SC847 chassis. Just as an additional datapoint (this thread is giving me chills) with = the LSI IT firmware version 20.00.02.00=E2=80=A6 * FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE * Supermicro SC826 Chassis * LSI SAS2004 Controller mps0: <Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2004> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem = 0xf72c0000-0xf72c3fff,0xf7280000-0xf72bffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 mps0: Firmware: 20.00.02.00, Driver: 20.00.00.00-fbsd mps0: IOCCapabilities: = 1285c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,EventReplay,HostDisc>= * LSI SAS2X28 Expander/Backplane ses0: <LSI SAS2X28 0e12> Fixed Enclosure Services SPC-3 SCSI = device=20 * 12x SATA WD RE 2TB drives (WD2000FYYZ arranged as 2x RAIDZ2 vdevs) Repeatedly filled up with data with regular scrubs without any issues = and performance is pretty good, although I haven=E2=80=99t had a disk = fail yet.=20 Cheers Phil=20=
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