Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:09:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101159460.4543@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <20130910184624.GA12584@potato.growveg.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101113250.87344@btw.pki2.com> <20130910184624.GA12584@potato.growveg.org>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, John wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: >> >> Today I updated several systems against stable/9 that had not bee updated >> in ~five months. Two of the systems are serviced by LSI 2008 controllers >> with a RAID1 array housing the operating system. >> >> These systems no longer properly boot. >> >> Specifically, they begin the boot process but bomb when they try to mount >> root. Neither system sees the GPT partitions of the boot disk at the >> "mountroot>" prompt. On one system I replaced the hard disks, >> repartitioned, and reinstalled but the problem continued. >> >> I don't see any mention of geom or controller update in UPDATING but I >> know they have been updated because I saw their revisions fly actross my >> screen during the svn update. Also, I am running IR vers 16 on my >> controllers, which is the latest version of LSI firmware. >> >> Is there some new action I have to take to sucessfully boot LSI disks >> against the updated kernel? > > Hi, does it use the mfi driver? Because that has been updated. There was > an errata notice about it on the 22nd August concerning mfi in JBOD > mode and disks >2TB > (typing by hand) mps0: <LSI SAS2008> port 0xb0000-0xb0ff mem .... mps0: Firmware: 16.00.00.00, Driver: 16.00.00.00-fbsd mps0: IOCCapabilities: 185c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,IR> The system I am sitting in front of, appears NOT to see the RAID1 disk but does see the two non-RAID disks. All disks are 1TB Seagate ST31000424SS. The second system, which is remote and I cannot view its console from here, has two 250GB disks RAID1.
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