Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-25 Thread Don Lewis
On 8 Aug, George Kontostanos wrote: > The problem: > > When trying to create a RaidZ pool using gpart and perform a 4K > alignment using gnop, we get the follwoing error immediately after > exporting the pool and destroying the .nop devices: > > id: 8043746387654554958 > state: FAULTED > st

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-20 Thread Andrew Leonard
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On the dmesg posted the firmware on the card is phase 11. This *must* > be in lockstep with the driver version or the card may not play nicely. > FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 have v13 of the driver, the upcoming 9.1 will have > v14. Note that v14 f

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-20 Thread Josh Paetzel
On 08/20/2012 00:19, Don Lewis wrote: > On 19 Aug, Josh Paetzel wrote: >> On 08/19/2012 14:04, Steven Hartland wrote: > >>> HBA's are the way to go if your using ZFS to manage the disks, you only >>> need RAID if your using a FS which doesn't manage the disk side well >>> such as UFS. >>> >>> Its

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-20 Thread Don Lewis
On 19 Aug, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On 08/19/2012 14:04, Steven Hartland wrote: >> HBA's are the way to go if your using ZFS to manage the disks, you only >> need RAID if your using a FS which doesn't manage the disk side well >> such as UFS. >> >> Its often quite common for RAID controllers to actu

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-19 Thread Josh Paetzel
On 08/19/2012 14:04, Steven Hartland wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Don Lewis" > To: > Cc: ; ; > > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment > > >> On 16 Aug, Steven Hartland wrote: >>> --

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Don Lewis" To: Cc: ; ; Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 6:37 PM Subject: Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment On 16 Aug, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" You are right, the chip specs say

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-19 Thread George Kontostanos
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 8 Aug, George Kontostanos wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We have a server with a LSI 9240-4i controller configured in JBOD with >> 4 SATA disks. Running FreeBSD 9.1-Beta1: >> >> Relevant dmesg: >> >> FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 12 09:38:51 UTC 201

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-19 Thread Don Lewis
On 8 Aug, George Kontostanos wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a server with a LSI 9240-4i controller configured in JBOD with > 4 SATA disks. Running FreeBSD 9.1-Beta1: > > Relevant dmesg: > > FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 12 09:38:51 UTC 2012 > r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-19 Thread Don Lewis
On 16 Aug, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "George Kontostanos" > >> You are right, the chip specs say: LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip >> >> The drives are identified as mfisyspd0, mfisyspd1, etc. > > The following might be interesting to you:- > http://forums.servetheh

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread George Kontostanos
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" > > >> You are right, the chip specs say: LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip >> >> The drives are identified as mfisyspd0, mfisyspd1, etc. > > > The following might be interesting to you:- > htt

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" You are right, the chip specs say: LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip The drives are identified as mfisyspd0, mfisyspd1, etc. The following might be interesting to you:- http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?599-LSI-RAID-Controller-and-HB

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" gkontos.m...@gmail.com It still really smells like something higher up the layers than the controller tbh. We have tried many combinations with different drives. Any other suggestions? See below Confused as your 9240-4i is a SAS2008

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread George Kontostanos
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" > >> >> >> I know. The problem with that controller is that for some reason it >> doesn't like gpart. I have gnoped the drives directly and it seems to >> be working so far. > > It s

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" I know. The problem with that controller is that for some reason it doesn't like gpart. I have gnoped the drives directly and it seems to be working so far. It still really smells like something higher up the layers than the controller t

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread George Kontostanos
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" > > To: "FreeBSD Stable" ; > > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:38 AM > Subject: Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment > > > >> A

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "George Kontostanos" To: "FreeBSD Stable" ; Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:38 AM Subject: Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment After contacting the manufacturer we got this response: -- My apologies for the wrong information provided

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-16 Thread George Kontostanos
After contacting the manufacturer we got this response: -- My apologies for the wrong information provided in my previous email. I was under the impression that this OS is still supported but after checking with our developer, FreeBSD is currently not supported with the LSI Megaraid Cards due

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-08 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Hi, On 09/08/2012, at 4:18 AM, George Kontostanos wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jan Mikkelsen > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Works fine for me with 9.0-p3 with the same controller, slight firmware >> differences: >> >> ... > Hi can you clarify if this was done using gpart and gnop? > g

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-08 Thread George Kontostanos
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > Hi, > > Works fine for me with 9.0-p3 with the same controller, slight firmware > differences: > > mfi0: 2709 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.244-1482 > mfi0: 2710 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0077 > mfi

Re: LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-08 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Hi, Works fine for me with 9.0-p3 with the same controller, slight firmware differences: mfi0: 2709 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.244-1482 mfi0: 2710 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0077 mfi0: 2711 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 04A I will be tryin

LSI 9240-4i 4K alignment

2012-08-07 Thread George Kontostanos
Hi all, We have a server with a LSI 9240-4i controller configured in JBOD with 4 SATA disks. Running FreeBSD 9.1-Beta1: Relevant dmesg: FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 12 09:38:51 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GH