Adaptec 5805 as a guest on ESXi 5.5 - problem

kaczorem kaczorem at iem.pw.edu.pl
Wed Dec 4 19:54:32 UTC 2013


Hi,

I've installed a FreeBSD (stable 9.2) as a guest on ESXi 5.5. I've added
Adaptec Controller via passthrough. Unfortunately FreeBSD does not show hard
drives. Any clue?

aac0: <Adaptec RAID 5805> mem 0xfd200000-0xfd3fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on
pci3
aac0: Enabling 64-bit address support
aac0: Enable Raw I/O
aac0: Enable 64-bit array
aac0: New comm. interface enabled
aac0: Adaptec 5805, aac driver 2.1.9-1
aacp0 on aac0
aacp1 on aac0
aacp2 on aac0
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): Retrying command
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): Retrying command
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): Retrying command
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): Retrying command
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): Retrying command
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): REPORT LUNS. CDB: a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe2:aacp2:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
ses0 at aacp2 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0
ses0: <AIC SES_BP-4D-1F 130a> Fixed Enclosure Services SCSI-5 device 
ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers (8bit)
ses0: SCSI-3 ENC Device


arcconf on FreeBSD works well and I can get the controller configuration:

 # arcconf getconfig 1
Controllers found: 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Controller information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Controller Status                        : Optimal
   Channel description                      : SAS/SATA
   Controller Model                         : Adaptec 5805
   Controller Serial Number                 : 8B1310329FF
   Temperature                              : 80 C/ 176 F (Normal)
   Installed memory                         : 512 MB
   Copyback                                 : Disabled
   Background consistency check             : Disabled
   Automatic Failover                       : Enabled
   Global task priority                     : High
   Performance Mode                         : Default/Dynamic
   Stayawake period                         : Disabled
   Spinup limit internal drives             : 0
   Spinup limit external drives             : 0
   Defunct disk drive count                 : 0
   Logical devices/Failed/Degraded          : 0/0/0
   SSDs assigned to MaxCache pool           : 0
   Maximum SSDs allowed in MaxCache pool    : 8
   MaxCache Read Cache Pool Size            : 0.000 GB
   MaxCache flush and fetch rate            : 0
   MaxCache Read, Write Balance Factor      : 3,1
   NCQ status                               : Enabled
   Statistics data collection mode          : Enabled
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Controller Version Information
   --------------------------------------------------------
   BIOS                                     : 5.2-0 (18948)
   Firmware                                 : 5.2-0 (18948)
   Driver                                   : 2.1-9 (1)


Also I can see all hard drives (configured as JBOD):

Device #0
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                              : Online (JBOD)
         Supported                          : Yes
         Transfer Speed                     : SATA 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device(T:L)       : 0,0(0:0)
         Reported Location                  : Enclosure 0, Slot 0
         Reported ESD(T:L)                  : 2,0(0:0)
         Vendor                             : 
         Model                              : SAMSUNG HD103UJ
         Firmware                           : 1AA01106
         Serial number                      : S13PJ1KPB04262
         Size                               : 953869 MB
         Write Cache                        : Enabled (write-back)
         FRU                                : None
         S.M.A.R.T.                         : No
         S.M.A.R.T. warnings                : 0
         Power State                        : Full rpm
         Supported Power States             : Full rpm,Powered off,Reduced
rpm
         SSD                                : No
         MaxCache Capable                   : No
         MaxCache Assigned                  : No
         NCQ status                         : Enabled

any clue?






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