Dell PERC5 (SAS 5) controller boot flr

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 22, 2006 8:51:43 AM -0700 Thomas Kindig <tkindig at wsfcu.org> 
wrote:

> Drive is detected and install is successful, however on reboot the drive
> drops out. Cannot boot in any mode.
>
> This is a new Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with a single 160G ATA HD, but
> with a PERC 5/i controller. I have been to the Dell Support boards, but
> this OS is not supported so they are not obliged to answer.
>
I have the same server, except for drive size.  I had two problems 
initially.  I had to update the driver for the Broadcomm NIC to solve a 
problem with hangs that required a full reboot to fix, and I had to update 
the usb driver to get DRAC to work in a virtual console.  I never had the 
problem you describe.
>
> [...]
> mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adaptor> port 0xec00-0xecff msm
> 0xfc000-0xfc4fffff,0xfc4effff irq 64 at device 0.0 on pc12
> mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.12.8
> [...]
> ums0: Dell DRAC5, rev 1.18/0,00 not supported
> ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported
> device_attach: ums0 attach returned 6
> umass0: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL   MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4
> umass1: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL   MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4
> [...]
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
> unknown: timeout waiting for read DRQ
> bce0: link state changed to DOWN
> bce1: link state changed to DOWN
> acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4244N/B101> at ata0-master UDMA33
>
I'm not clear on why you have PERC5/i with only one drive.  Is the drive 
partitioned and set up with RAID1?

Here's what I see in dmesg:

ums0: Dell DRAC5, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1
ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported
device_attach: ums0 attach returned 6
umass0: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL  MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4
umass1: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL  MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4
umass2: DELL  INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL  MEDIA, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4

mfid0: <MFI Logical Disk> on mfi0
mfid0: 69375MB (142082047 sectors) RAID

bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem 
0xf4000000-0xf
5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9
bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
brgphy0: <BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 
1000baseTX
-FDX, auto
bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/