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

[Brian Hechinger]

AH HA!

Lame BIOS.

There are only 6 “slots” in the boot device selection drop down.

Pulled the two SATA disks hanging off of the ACHI ports and the PERC showed up in the list.

-brian

> On Nov 17, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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