Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:51:17 +0300 From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mps driver instability under stable/8 Message-ID: <4DD0D775.10606@digsys.bg> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105110135030.89339@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1104291145080.29081@woozle.rinet.ru> <20110430211927.GA67374@nargothrond.kdm.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105011434360.29081@woozle.rinet.ru> <20110503034737.GA52416@nargothrond.kdm.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105031736270.77472@woozle.rinet.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105031852180.77472@woozle.rinet.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105032117420.77472@woozle.rinet.ru> <4DC9521E.3060503@digsys.bg> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1105110135030.89339@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On 11.05.11 00:38, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > DK> > Well, using > DK> > http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16414.aspx > DK> > I downgraded to version 8-fixed, and at least topology errors disappear. > DK> > > DK> Would this work with the Supermicro integrated LSI2008, like in X8DTH-6F? > DK> Mine came with firmware version 7, is there instability to be expected? > > I suppose you can upgrade to "fixed" firmware from the URL above; at least, I'd > been in mostly the same situation: SM server with onboard LSI and LSI expander, > and so far flashing 8-fixed firmware is good for me, at least machine did not > hang in find-related tasks as it were before... > This sort of worked, but: Version 9 have me very poor performance with drives. While drives typically do 150MB/s sequential, I could never get more than half of that. Even when using only one drive. At some point, after reboot it started discovering four expanders.. It's BIOS complained at boot time loudly, etc. Performance did not change. Version 8 (supposedly the fixed one), too had poor performance, had the same issues with multiple expanders, but also the disks devices were multiplied four times. So I went back to flash the original SMC2008 firmware (version 7), which went fine, performance is ok, nothing is multiplied :) Weird, it claims to be IR firmware, but I ended up in IT mode, which is what I need anyway. Looking at the batch file for the SMC firmware, it does erase with "7", instead of with "6". Probably it is necessary to erase the flash more than LSI suggests. Haven't tried yet. Should I worry for not running the latest firmware? Daniel
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