On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 17:30 +0100, Jack Wang wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > And I think either mpt2sas and/or mpt3sas HBAs (I don't have my
> > > hardware
> > > nearby) have a SMP target hidden away somewhere. Perhaps someone
> > > from
> > > LSI/Avago/Broadcom could supply more information about that.
> 
> Indeed, mpt3sas has internal enclosure some how.
> snip from  "sas3ircu 0 display" output:
> Device is a Hard disk
>   Enclosure #                             : 1
>   Slot #                                  : 4
>   SAS Address                             : 4433221-1-0400-0000
>   State                                   : Ready (RDY)
> 
> And it's possible to locate it using "sas3ircu 0 locate 1:4 ON" to
> locate the drive.

The fat firmware eats pretty much all trace of the enclosure.  I think
it could be exposed as a device, but that would disrupt the mpt3sas
internal handling if our Linux enclosure service also binds to it.

James

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