LSI SAS2008 mps driver preferred firmware version

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:15:15AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 01:19:55PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru>
> > wrote:
> > > ​Did the original disk get labelled automatically?  No, you had to do
> > that
> > > when you first started using it.  So, why would you expect a
> > > replaced disk
> >
> > Initial labeling is problem too.
> > For new chassis with 36 identical disk (already installed) -- what is
> > simple way to labeling disks?
> >
> 
> ​That's the easy part.  Boot with all the drives pulled out a bit, so they
> aren't connected/detected.
> 
> Insert first disk, wait for it to be detected and get a /dev node, then
> partition/label it.  Repeat for each disk.  Takes about 5 minutes to label
> a 45-bay JBOD chassis.

Hmm, from me to server more then 1700km, how I can do this?

> No different than how you would get the serial number off each disk before
> inserting them into the chassis, so you'd know for sure which slot they're
> in.

This is do by manufacturer.
Or in DC after service ordering.
I am don't assemble servers, in general.
And I am don't see servers and don't know how they look.

> "Replace disk in bay with blinked led"
> >
> > Author: bapt
> > Date: Sat Sep  5 00:06:01 2015
> >
> 
> ​And, how did you manage to do that before Sep 5, 2015?​

Deteched disk don't blink activity LED.

> Usaly serial number can be read w/o pull disk (for SuperMicro cases
> > this is true, remote hand replaced disk by S/N for me w/o pull every disk).
> >
> 
> ​How?  We have all SuperMicro storage chassis (SC2xx, SC8xx, and JBODs) and
> server chassis in our data centre here.  None of them allow you to read the
> serial number off the physical disk without pulling the disk out
> completely.​  You'd have to manually label each bay with the serial number
> before inserting the disk into the chassis ... which is no different from
> labelling the device in the OS.  Except it's much faster to find a 3D
> co-ordinate (enc0a6) than to scan every bay looking for a specific serial
> number.

For SC847A this do for me in NL DC (as I understand -- through holes
at an angle).

> But, to each their own.  :)  Everyone has their "perfect" system that works
> for them.  :D
> 
> -- 
> Freddie Cash
> fjwcash at gmail.com