[OmniOS-discuss] [zfs] SAS 9305-16e HBA support in Illumos

[Schweiss, Chip]

This server will be serving NFS for vSphere.  It is running OmniOS CE,
nothing VMware.

I'm working on flashing firmware now and will report back any changes.

-Chip

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've added mpt_sas "pciex1000,c9" to /etc/driver_aliases and rebooted.
> >
> > Looks like it's partially working, but it's not fully functional.
> Service are timing out:
> >
> > Here's what I see in /var/adm/messages:
> >
> >
> > Aug 31 08:15:49 vsphere-zfs01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,1905 at 1,1/pci1000,3180 at 0 (mpt_sas0):
> > Aug 31 08:15:49 vsphere-zfs01   MPT Firmware Fault, code: 2667
> > Aug 31 08:15:49 vsphere-zfs01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,1905 at 1,1/pci1000,3180 at 0 (mpt_sas0):
>
> The driver is reporting that the MPT IOC (IO Controller) is reporting a
> fault. It's just reading this condition off the controller chip itself, and
> unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a handy reference published by
> LSI/Avago regarding what 2667h actually means.
>
> However I note from your machine's hostname that this is perhaps a ESI
> guest that is being given the HBA in passthrough mode? It would seem that
> someone else has encountered a similar issue as yourself in this case, with
> the same MPT fault code, but on Linux running Proxmox. According to this
> forum thread, they ended up flashing the firmware on the card to something
> newer and the problem went away:
>
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pci-passthrough.16483/
>
> I would suggest Tim's approach and flashing your card up to the newest IT
> (not IR) firmware.
>
> /dale
>
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