Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:34:01 +0300 From: pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> To: Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mptutil(8) segfault on IBM xSeries 3550 Message-ID: <a31046fc1002152034j4128ad08w69e0cdfb97a68bce@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B79C9CB.8060102@greatbaysoftware.com> References: <4B75AB2D.2090306@greatbaysoftware.com> <4B79C9CB.8060102@greatbaysoftware.com>
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On 16 February 2010 01:25, Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com> wrot= e: > Charles Owens wrote: >> 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. =A0Then, after a reboot, it suddenly start= ed >> 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: >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Board Name: SR-BR10i >> =A0 =A0Board Assembly: L3-25116-01H >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Chip Name: C1068E >> =A0 =A0 Chip Revision: UNUSED >> =A0 =A0 =A0 RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E >> =A0 =A0 RAID0 Stripes: 64K >> =A0 =A0RAID1E Stripes: 64K >> =A0RAID0 Drives/Vol: 1-10 >> =A0RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2 >> RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10 >> >> >> This work is being done using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 + PAE. >> > > > I should add that the RAID controller in question is the IBM > ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller which is based on the LSI 1068E > processor, as described here: > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/872/ENUSAG09-0104/index.html > > Hi, would you show ktrace output? --=20 wbr, pluknet
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