Re: Can not see/access devices on Marvell 88SE9485 + SiI 3726 PMP

[Hajo Möller]

On 01.07.2013 16:38, James Bottomley wrote:
 mv_sas is a libsas based driver.  libsas doesn't have any support for
 SATA PMPs.  When it was added they were left as a todo item but then in
 the field everyone deployed enterprise type SATA devices in SAS expander
 chassis, so PMP support just got forgotten.

That's a pity, so it's unlikely libsas will get support for PMPs in the
near future or at all?  Sadly I'm not able to add the support myself.

Do you know of any SAS controllers which do support SATA PMPs?
I'm stuck with the PMPs, so I'm trying a SATA controller with an
88SX7042 next, although having a good SAS controller would be better in
the long run.

Greetings,
Hajo
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Can not see/access devices on Marvell 88SE9485 + SiI 3726 PMP

[Hajo Möller]

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=0x.
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 = 0x0081
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 :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=0x.
kernel: [  283.953519]
/build/buildd/linux-lts-quantal-3.5.0/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c
2064:phy 4 irq sts = 0x1001
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 = 0x0081
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 :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 = 0x0001
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
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