Hi, I've got a box which recently got a Marvell 88SE9485 PCIe card (Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8), which is connected by a mSAS->4x SATA-cable to some 5 HDD backplanes (CFI-B53PM, chip is a SiI 3726).
The HBA's BIOS can see and access the HDDs through the backplanes, which various Linux distributions could not. I tried Ubuntu 12.04.2, Ubuntu 13.04, Debian 7.0 and a current Arch Linux. All logs in this mail are from a fresh Ubuntu 12.04.2 install. lspci shows the controller as: 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9485 (rev 03) lshw does not show the attached disks, nor are there device nodes in /dev/ for those disks. Unplugging a disk results in this (/var/log/kern.log): kernel: [ 276.995910] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2062:phy 4 ctrl sts=0x00000000. kernel: [ 276.995914] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2064:phy 4 irq sts = 0x01201001 kernel: [ 278.950547] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2062:phy 4 ctrl sts=0x00111000. kernel: [ 278.950551] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2064:phy 4 irq sts = 0x00000081 kernel: [ 279.502757] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_94xx.c 838:get all reg link rate is 0x111000 kernel: [ 279.502760] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_94xx.c 843:get link rate is 9 kernel: [ 279.582118] mvsas 0000:01:00.0: Phy0 : No sig fis kernel: [ 279.582121] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2006:phy0 Attached Device kernel: [ 283.953502] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2048:Get signature time out, reset phy 4 kernel: [ 283.953517] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2062:phy 4 ctrl sts=0x00000000. kernel: [ 283.953519] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2064:phy 4 irq sts = 0x00001001 kernel: [ 284.449485] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2062:phy 4 ctrl sts=0x00111000. kernel: [ 284.449488] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2064:phy 4 irq sts = 0x00000081 kernel: [ 286.445635] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_94xx.c 838:get all reg link rate is 0x111000 kernel: [ 286.445638] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_94xx.c 843:get link rate is 9 kernel: [ 286.524997] mvsas 0000:01:00.0: Phy0 : No sig fis kernel: [ 286.525000] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2006:phy0 Attached Device Replugging the disk: kernel: [ 310.738784] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2062:phy 4 ctrl sts=0x00111000. kernel: [ 310.738788] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2064:phy 4 irq sts = 0x00010000 kernel: [ 310.738791] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 2113:notify plug in on phy[0] kernel: [ 310.758632] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_94xx.c 838:get all reg link rate is 0x111000 kernel: [ 310.758634] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_94xx.c 843:get link rate is 9 kernel: [ 310.877669] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 1175:phy 4 attach dev info is 20001 kernel: [ 310.877671] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 1177:phy 4 attach sas addr is 4 kernel: [ 310.877678] /build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 277:phy 4 byte dmaded. kernel: [ 310.877689] sas: sas_form_port: phy0 belongs to port0 already(1)! According to Marvell's product brief the controller has "Built-in support for SATA Port Multipliers with FIS-based switching", which its BIOS seems to confirm. The PMPs used to work when connected via a Syba SY-PEX40008 (SiI3124) controller, which has bugs on its own when more than three drives per PMP are concurrently active. Any help is greatly appreciated, Hajo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
