LSI1064 and LSI1064E and mpt

[Matthew Jacob]

Sounds like f/w issues. Let me see if I can't get some traction out of
LSI on this.

On 10/12/06, Johannes.Kruger at nokia.com <Johannes.Kruger at nokia.com> wrote:
> The problems are:
> (1) It's not a RAID-0 Vol but a RAID-1 (The PCI-X card reports it
> correctly, but not the PCI-Express. This should not differ.
> (2) The RAID volume is very slow (both cards are slow with RAID volume -
> this is the problem I am trying to track down), approx 4.5 Mbyte/sec
> instead of 30 Mbyte/sec I get when no RAID volume is configured. With
> the RAID volume, even just 1 disk in the volume get slow performance.
> (3) With the PCI-X card the config page has info in it, so I can add
> code to print the resync complete percentage on intervals I choose.
> (4) I added some code to print out the volume config page 0 info on the
> PCI-Express card:
> The header looks ok, but not the config page in the same structure, it's
> all zeroes.
>
> ------------------------ Snippet start ----------------------
> .
> .
> mpt: MPI Version=1.5.13.0
> ROLE: MPT_ROLE_INITIATOR
> IOC now at RUNSTATE
> IOC Page 2 Header: ver 4, len 8c, num 2, type 1
> Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1netlog:mpt ..  )
> 1 Active Volume (2 Max)
> 2 Hidden Drive Members (10 Max)
> .
> .
> mpt: mpt_read_cfg_page: Config Info Status 22
> mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): mpt_refresh_raid_vol: Failed to read RAID Vol
> Page(0)
> --------------------------------------------
>       Volume Config Page values
> --------------------------------------------
> Header PageVersion 0x6
> Header PageLength  0x12
> Header PageNumber  0x0
> Header PageType    0x8
> VolumeID    0
> VolumeBus   0
> VolumeIOC   0
> VolumeType  0
> VolumeType Flags     0x0
> VolumeType State     0x0
> VolumeType Reserved  0x0
> VolumeSettings settings      0x0
> VolumeSettings HotSparePool  0x0
> VolumeSettings Reserved      0x0
> MaxLBA          0
> Reserved1       0
> StripeSize      0
> Reserved2       0
> Reserved3       0
> NumPhysDisks    0
> DataScrubRate   0
> ResyncRate      0
> InactiveStatus  0
> --------------------------------------------
> mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings (  )
> mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 0 Members:
> mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-0 - Optimal
> .
> .
> .
> (mpt0:0:6): Physical (mpt0:0:6), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:0)
> (mpt0:0:6): Online
> (mpt0:0:4): Physical (mpt0:0:4), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:1)
> (mpt0:0:4): Online
> .
> .
> .
> (probe5:mpt0:0:5:0): Uninitialized Transport 8:1e?
> da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> da0: <LSILOGIC Logical Volume 3000> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 300.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 37193MB (76171264 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4741C)
> .
> .
> ------------------------------- Snippet end ---------------------------
>
>
> Johan
>