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

[Schweiss, Chip]

Now that I'm back to working on this.   The only way I could get the
firmware updated was booting into the UEFI shell.   A bit of a pain but it
worked.

Unfortunately, it has not changed the behavior of the HBA.

Where do I go from here?    Any hope of getting this working on OmniOS?

-Chip

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:

> 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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