Re: mpt problem on a Supermicro motherboard (FreeBSD 9.2 amd64)
Victor Sudakov wrote: I have several Supermicro-based servers with the mpt RAID adapter: # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: UNUSED Board Assembly: Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: none # The problem is, I cannot configure any RAIDs (please see output below) from FreeBSD. If I configure volumes from BIOS setup, FreeBSD still sees them as separate physical discs. What am I doing wrong? I cannot use gmirror with these servers because a) if no MPT RAID is configured in BIOS setup, it cannot boot from HDD and b) if an MPT RAID *is* configured in BIOS setup, it occupies the last sector and prevents GEOM from working with these drives. Any help please? (or redirect me to a more appropriate maillist). After many unsuccessful trials and googling, we had to reconfigure the adapter from RAID mode to IT mode. It required flashing the adapter's BIOS from a Supermicro-supplied image and changing a jumper setting on the motherboard. Now as the adapter is in IT mode, it is a plain HBA the BIOS can boot from, and I have set up a gmirror on the SAS disks. After flashing the adapter BIOS, don't forget to enter its setup (Ctrl-C) and enable hotplugging of disks (called Removable Media Support in the menu, off by default). People come across similar problems and solutions on other OSes, like http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-973912.html -- Victor Sudakov Tomsk, Russia Russian Barefoot FAQ at http://www.barefooters.ru/barefoot.txt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mpt problem on a Supermicro motherboard (FreeBSD 9.2 amd64)
Colleagues, I have several Supermicro-based servers with the mpt RAID adapter: # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: UNUSED Board Assembly: Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: none # The problem is, I cannot configure any RAIDs (please see output below) from FreeBSD. If I configure volumes from BIOS setup, FreeBSD still sees them as separate physical discs. What am I doing wrong? I cannot use gmirror with these servers because a) if no MPT RAID is configured in BIOS setup, it cannot boot from HDD and b) if an MPT RAID *is* configured in BIOS setup, it occupies the last sector and prevents GEOM from working with these drives. Any help please? (or redirect me to a more appropriate maillist). # mptutil clear Are you sure you wish to clear the configuration on mpt0? [y/N] y mpt0: Configuration cleared # mptutil show volumes mpt0 Volumes: Id SizeLevel Stripe State Write-Cache Name # mptutil show drives mpt0 Physical Drives: da0 ( 558G) ONLINE HITACHI HUS156060VLS600 A760 SCSI-6 bus 0 id 0 da1 ( 558G) ONLINE HITACHI HUS156060VLS600 A760 SCSI-6 bus 0 id 1 da2 ( 558G) ONLINE HITACHI HUS156060VLS600 A760 SCSI-6 bus 0 id 2 da3 ( 558G) ONLINE HITACHI HUS156060VLS600 A760 SCSI-6 bus 0 id 3 # # mptutil create raid1 -v da2,da3 mptutil: Reading config page header failed: Invalid configuration page Added drive da2 with PhysDiskNum 0 mptutil: Reading config page header failed: Invalid configuration page # # mptutil show volumes mpt0 Volumes: Id SizeLevel Stripe State Write-Cache Name # -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
