LSI SAS3041E write cache

Andrey Mundirov useryear at mail.ru
Tue Apr 13 13:36:27 UTC 2010


I have LSI SAS3041E RAID controller and FreeBSD 7.3. When I try to enable write cache on RAID array, mptutil 
fails with following message:

# mptutil volume cache 0 enable
mptutil: Reading config page failed: Invalid configuration page

My configuration:

# mptutil  version
mptutil version 1.0.3

# mptutil show adapter
mpt0 Adapter:
       Board Name: SAS3041E
   Board Assembly: L3-01101-04E
        Chip Name: C1064E
    Chip Revision: UNUSED
      RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E
    RAID0 Stripes: 64K
   RAID1E Stripes: 64K
 RAID0 Drives/Vol: 2-10
 RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2
RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10

#  mptutil show config
mpt0 Configuration: 1 volumes, 2 drives
    volume 0 (148G) RAID-1 OPTIMAL spans:
        drive 1 (149G) ONLINE <ST3160827AS 3.42> SATA
        drive 0 (149G) ONLINE <ST3160827AS 3.42> SATA
        spare pools: 0

# mptutil show volumes
mpt0 Volumes:
  Id     Size    Level   Stripe  State  Write-Cache  Name
     0 (  148G) RAID-1          OPTIMAL   Disabled

# mptutil volume status 0
Volume 0 status:
    state: OPTIMAL
    flags: DISABLED




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