mfi and Dell PERC 6/i

[Ian FREISLICH]

Danilo Baio wrote:
> > Scott Long wrote:
> > The firmware on the controller crashed.  The best I can suggest is to look
> > for newer firmware (mfiutil can flash firmware) and to call LSI or Dell
> > tech-support and report the problem.  In the past, there have been bugs with
> > patrol reads causing crashes under heavy load, so you might also look at
> > disabling that option.

Dell will not be interested unless the adapter is running the most
recent firmware.

> Intersting, patrol read is automatic and before crash show on the logs that
> patrol read has started.
> 
> I disabled this feature, rebooted the server and didn't show that firmware
> error...
> 
> I will test for some days.

Dell, (maybe) Scott and I recomend that you ensure you're on the
latest firmware:

[firewall2] ~ # mfiutil -u0 show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: PERC 6/i Adapter
   Serial Number: 1122334455667788
        Firmware: 6.2.0-0013
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50
  Battery Backup: present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 256M
  Minimum Stripe: 8K
  Maximum Stripe: 1M

I'm sure there are bugs on this firmware too, but reading the fixes
that were made between the version that came on the adapter and
this version were Truely Frightening.

It's trivial to update the firmware with the mfiutl program.

Ian

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Ian Freislich