[OmniOS-discuss] Can't get OmniOS to see LSI 1068e on SuperMicro X8DTL-3F

[Brian Hechinger]

So I’ve solved this by decommissioning an older server (was planning on that anyway) and stealing the PERC 6i out of it.

That shows up properly (which isn’t surprising, the machine that was in ran OI for years).

Now to try to figure out how to get the BIOS to want to boot from it.

/me sighs

-brian

> On Nov 17, 2015, at 1:41 AM, Mark <mark0x01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I used to work with the Supermicro Servers and used embedded and cards with OpenSolaris. The older firmware seems to have evaporated from Supermicro's ftp site.
> 
> When Supermicro stopped releasing newer versions, I used the matching LSI ones without issues.
> 
> I'll dig in my archives and see what info I can find.
> 
> 
> 
> On 17/11/2015 2:05 a.m., wonko at 4amlunch.net wrote:
>> This is built into the motherboard. This isn't an add on card.
>> 
>> As far as I know (and let's be honest about how much I know here) this is a pretty vanilla firmware. It's the SuperMicro provided one.
>> 
>> -brian
>> 
>>> On Nov 16, 2015, at 02:43, Mark <mark0x01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Check the PCI slot's speed setting in setup.
>>> Many older cards need the slot speed lowered to work reliably.
>>> 
>>> I also seem to recall there may be different LSI firmware that supports different sas bus negotiation upper limits that can also cause issues.
>>> 
>>> Mark.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 16/11/2015 12:24 p.m., Brian Hechinger wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 6:11 PM, John D Groenveld <jdg117 at elvis.arl.psu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> In message <B888B845-43EB-4E5C-BDC8-EEB0B2F8C2EC at 4amlunch.net>, Brian Hechinger
>>>>> writes:
>>>>>> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci8086,340a at 3/pci159d,6 at 0 (mpt0):
>>>>>>                LSI PCI device (1000,59) not supported.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does mega_sas(7D) also fail to attach to 1000,59?
>>>> 
>>>> It doesn’t complain but it also doesn’t work.
>>>> 
>>>> and now fault manager is yelling about a PCIE device fault.
>>>> 
>>>> So I’ll say no. :)
>>>> 
>>>> -brian
>>>> 
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