mptutil(8) segfault on IBM xSeries 3550

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On 16 February 2010 01:25, Charles Owens <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com> wrote:
> Charles Owens wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> We're working with IBM hardware (xSeries 3550) that has an
>> mpt-based RAID controller... after initial success with testing the
>> mptutil utility, now operations other than "show adapter" and "show
>> volume" are resulting in segfaults.
>>
>> While it was working properly we created and removed volumes several
>> times, force-failed drives, and just generally put it through its
>> paces... and all seemed fine.  Then, after a reboot, it suddenly started
>> failing with segfault as described, and nothing we do has helped to get
>> it out of this state (including trying to use the LSI in-BIOS manager to
>> create/delete volumes -- which in and of itself works fine).
>>
>> We found recent thread
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4B56CD4C.80503 and hoped that it
>> might somehow relate... and even tried the patch that John Baldwin
>> posted, but to no avail.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this behavior and/or have a suggested fix or workaround?
>>
>>
>> Here's the output of "mptutil show adapter":
>>
>> mpt0 Adapter:
>>        Board Name: SR-BR10i
>>    Board Assembly: L3-25116-01H
>>         Chip Name: C1068E
>>     Chip Revision: UNUSED
>>       RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E
>>     RAID0 Stripes: 64K
>>    RAID1E Stripes: 64K
>>  RAID0 Drives/Vol: 1-10
>>  RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2
>> RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10
>>
>>
>> This work is being done using FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 + PAE.
>>
>
>
> I should add that the RAID controller in question is the IBM
> ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller which is based on the LSI 1068E
> processor, as described here:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/872/ENUSAG09-0104/index.html
>
>

Hi, would you show ktrace output?

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