ServeRAID M5210e passthroughand syspd corruption

[Steven Hartland]

Also make sure you have the latest FW as there's a known issue with
older versions causing data corruption with WS commands on older
versions.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Borja Marcos" <borjam at sarenet.es>
To: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: ServeRAID M5210e passthroughand syspd corruption



On Feb 28, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Steven Hartland wrote:

> mfi is a raid card it doesn't really have a true passthrough mfisyspd is
> the best you'll get. I'd recommend you switch to an HBA card which uses
> mps driver instead.

An example:

History for 'zfspool':
2007-12-18.11:21:03 zpool create zfspool raidz2 /dev/da0s1d /dev/da1s1d /dev/da2s1d /dev/da3s1d /dev/da4s1d /dev/da5s1d 
/dev/da6s1d /dev/da7s1d
2007-12-18.11:23:15 zfs create zfspool/root


# mfiutil show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: PERC 5/i Integrated
   Serial Number: 12345
        Firmware: 5.2.1-0067
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10, RAID50
  Battery Backup: present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 256M
  Minimum Stripe: 8K
  Maximum Stripe: 128K


# camcontrol devlist
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (da1,pass1)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (da2,pass2)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (da3,pass3)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (da4,pass4)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (da5,pass5)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (da6,pass6)
<SEAGATE ST9146802SS S229>         at scbus0 target 7 lun 0 (da7,pass7)
<DP BACKPLANE 1.05>                at scbus0 target 8 lun 0 (ses0,pass8)





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