Re: mfi and Dell PERC 6/i
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Danilo Baio danilob...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ian FREISLICH i...@clue.co.za wrote: Danilo Baio wrote: Scott Long wrote: The firmware on the controller crashed. The best I can suggest is to look for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or Dell tech-support and report the problem. In the past, there have been bugs with patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look at disabling that option. Dell will not be interested unless the adapter is running the most recent firmware. Intersting, patrol read is automatic and before crash show on the logs that patrol read has started. I disabled this feature, rebooted the server and didn't show that firmware error... I will test for some days. Dell, (maybe) Scott and I recomend that you ensure you're on the latest firmware: [firewall2] ~ # mfiutil -u0 show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC 6/i Adapter Serial Number: 1122334455667788 Firmware: 6.2.0-0013 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50 Battery Backup: present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 256M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 1M I'm sure there are bugs on this firmware too, but reading the fixes that were made between the version that came on the adapter and this version were Truely Frightening. It's trivial to update the firmware with the mfiutl program. Ian -- Ian Freislich Hi Ian, It´s already running the last one. bazinga# mfiutil -u0 show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC 6/i Integrated Serial Number: 1122334455667788 Firmware: 6.2.0-0013 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50 Battery Backup: present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 256M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 1M bazinga# mfiutil -u0 show firmware mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 6.2.0-0013 mfi0 Firmware Images: Name Version Date Time Status APP 1.22.02-0612 Mar 30 2009 14:41:22 active BIOS 2.04.00 active BCON 1.1-46-e_15-Rel Mar 2 2008 14:06:08 active CTLR 1.02-015B Jan 27 2009 12:02:58 active PCLI 01.00-023:#%6 Nov 25 2008 17:21:50 active BTBL 1.00.00.01-0011 Nov 27 2007 18:29:20 active bazinga# It is the last one that i've found on dell website: http://ftp.us.dell.com/SAS-RAID/R216023.txt This is a firmware release for the Dell PERC 6/i Adapter. Component Current Version Previous Version Package 6.2.0-0013 6.1.1-0047 Firmware 1.22.02-0612 1.21.02-0528 Bootblock 1.00.00.01-0011 1.00.00.01-0011 Ctrl-R 1.02.015B 1.02.014B Hi guys, Solved my problem. The support DELL replaced the battery and the problem persisted, so they replaced all the controller for a new one and solved the problem. Today this controller is running on a production/stress server with no problem, uptime 31 days. FreeBSD 8.1 Raid 1 (2 disks sata 500) and Raid 10 (four disks sas 15k) Thank you all. -- Danilo Gonçalves Baio (dbaio) danilobaio (*) gmail . com +55 (44) 8801 1257 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi and Dell PERC 6/i
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Scott Long sco...@samsco.org wrote: On Aug 24, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Danilo Baio wrote: Hi guys, I have a DELL PERC 6/i controller and I can't find the problem. The system was running and lost disk access with this messages on console: mfi0: COMMAND 0xff80005d1770 TIMEOUT AFTER 6178 SECONDS ... http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/2300/errorr6102.png I can't log in, after a reboot, nothing on the logs. only shows this on boot: Aug 24 23:04:58 bazinga kernel: mfi0: 2806 (335999491s/0x0020/DEAD) - Fatal firmware error: Line 156 in ../../raid/1078int.c The firmware on the controller crashed. The best I can suggest is to look for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or Dell tech-support and report the problem. In the past, there have been bugs with patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look at disabling that option. Scott Intersting, patrol read is automatic and before crash show on the logs that patrol read has started. I disabled this feature, rebooted the server and didn't show that firmware error... I will test for some days. Thank you Scott. -- Danilo Gonçalves Baio (dbaio) danilobaio (*) gmail . com +55 (44) 8801 1257 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi and Dell PERC 6/i
Danilo Baio wrote: Scott Long wrote: The firmware on the controller crashed. The best I can suggest is to look for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or Dell tech-support and report the problem. In the past, there have been bugs with patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look at disabling that option. Dell will not be interested unless the adapter is running the most recent firmware. Intersting, patrol read is automatic and before crash show on the logs that patrol read has started. I disabled this feature, rebooted the server and didn't show that firmware error... I will test for some days. Dell, (maybe) Scott and I recomend that you ensure you're on the latest firmware: [firewall2] ~ # mfiutil -u0 show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC 6/i Adapter Serial Number: 1122334455667788 Firmware: 6.2.0-0013 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50 Battery Backup: present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 256M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 1M I'm sure there are bugs on this firmware too, but reading the fixes that were made between the version that came on the adapter and this version were Truely Frightening. It's trivial to update the firmware with the mfiutl program. Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi and Dell PERC 6/i
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ian FREISLICH i...@clue.co.za wrote: Danilo Baio wrote: Scott Long wrote: The firmware on the controller crashed. The best I can suggest is to look for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or Dell tech-support and report the problem. In the past, there have been bugs with patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look at disabling that option. Dell will not be interested unless the adapter is running the most recent firmware. Intersting, patrol read is automatic and before crash show on the logs that patrol read has started. I disabled this feature, rebooted the server and didn't show that firmware error... I will test for some days. Dell, (maybe) Scott and I recomend that you ensure you're on the latest firmware: [firewall2] ~ # mfiutil -u0 show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC 6/i Adapter Serial Number: 1122334455667788 Firmware: 6.2.0-0013 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50 Battery Backup: present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 256M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 1M I'm sure there are bugs on this firmware too, but reading the fixes that were made between the version that came on the adapter and this version were Truely Frightening. It's trivial to update the firmware with the mfiutl program. Ian -- Ian Freislich Hi Ian, It´s already running the last one. bazinga# mfiutil -u0 show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC 6/i Integrated Serial Number: 1122334455667788 Firmware: 6.2.0-0013 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50 Battery Backup: present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 256M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 1M bazinga# mfiutil -u0 show firmware mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 6.2.0-0013 mfi0 Firmware Images: Name Version Date Time Status APP 1.22.02-0612 Mar 30 2009 14:41:22 active BIOS 2.04.00 active BCON 1.1-46-e_15-Rel Mar 2 2008 14:06:08 active CTLR 1.02-015B Jan 27 2009 12:02:58 active PCLI 01.00-023:#%6 Nov 25 2008 17:21:50 active BTBL 1.00.00.01-0011 Nov 27 2007 18:29:20 active bazinga# It is the last one that i've found on dell website: http://ftp.us.dell.com/SAS-RAID/R216023.txt This is a firmware release for the Dell PERC 6/i Adapter. Component Current Version Previous Version Package 6.2.0-0013 6.1.1-0047 Firmware 1.22.02-0612 1.21.02-0528 Bootblock 1.00.00.01-0011 1.00.00.01-0011 Ctrl-R 1.02.015B 1.02.014B Thank you... -- Danilo Gonçalves Baio (dbaio) danilobaio (*) gmail . com +55 (44) 8801 1257 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi and Dell PERC 6/i
On Aug 24, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Danilo Baio wrote: Hi guys, I have a DELL PERC 6/i controller and I can't find the problem. The system was running and lost disk access with this messages on console: mfi0: COMMAND 0xff80005d1770 TIMEOUT AFTER 6178 SECONDS ... http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/2300/errorr6102.png I can't log in, after a reboot, nothing on the logs. only shows this on boot: Aug 24 23:04:58 bazinga kernel: mfi0: 2806 (335999491s/0x0020/DEAD) - Fatal firmware error: Line 156 in ../../raid/1078int.c The firmware on the controller crashed. The best I can suggest is to look for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or Dell tech-support and report the problem. In the past, there have been bugs with patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look at disabling that option. Scott ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
