kern/146287: [ciss] ciss(4) cannot see more than one SmartArray controller

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:54:13AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > 
> > Not sure if this helps or not, but we've got about 20 of these machines, 
> > as well as the DL580 version in production. I've seen this very same 
> > issue on the ML series machines also. If I remember correctly, there 
> > were two different PCI bridges used in the same production models, one 
> > was from IBM and the other was a ServerWorks (Broadcom) chipset. One 
> > didn't show up at all (not even when probed) and the other one was 
> > displayed. Can't remember which was which, but I know it had to do with 
> > hot-swap PCI subsystem, and I suspect this is what you're experiencing. 
> > We had a similar experience with MyriCom 10GE cards in an ML570 with a 
> > hot-swap PCI option. The card wouldn't show up in slot closest to the 
> > Mem card (can't remember if the DL380's have a riser card for ram or if 
> > this is onboard), but it worked in the next slot over.
> > 
> > 
> > Erich M. Jenkins
> > Fuujin Group Limited
> > 
> > 
> > "You should never, never doubt what no one is sure about."
> > -- Gene Wilder
> > 
> 
> It does help a bit.
> 
> Basically, we need an AML dump of the ACPI information from one of the
> machines that has an IBM based bridge chip.
> 
> acpidump -dt
> 
> sean
> 
> 

I wonder what bridge chip is used in the DL380 g3, as far I know the ones
we have should be hotswap PCI-X. On the DL380 g4 the standard cage was not
hotswap and I think we don't have any of those.

Looking at the product specs of a DL380 g3, it shows different
bus for slot 1 (bottom at 64-bit/133Mhz PCI-X) against slot 2+3 (middle
and top slot at 64-bit/100Mhz PCI-X).

I got one DL380 g3 myself, which isn't running much right now, so I will
check out what PCI devices I can see.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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