# [OmniOS-discuss] [zfs] SAS 9305-16e HBA support in Illumos

Schweiss, Chip chip at innovates.com
Thu Aug 31 14:53:44 UTC 2017

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    This server will be serving NFS for vSphere.  It is running OmniOS CE,
    nothing VMware.

    I'm working on flashing firmware now and will report back any changes.

    -Chip

    On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org> wrote:

    >
    > > On Aug 31, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > I've added mpt_sas "pciex1000,c9" to /etc/driver_aliases and rebooted.
    > >
    > > Looks like it's partially working, but it's not fully functional.
    > Service are timing out:
    > >
    > > Here's what I see in /var/adm/messages:
    > >
    > >
    > > Aug 31 08:15:49 vsphere-zfs01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
    > /pci at 0,0/pci8086,1905 at 1,1/pci1000,3180 at 0 (mpt_sas0):
    > > Aug 31 08:15:49 vsphere-zfs01   MPT Firmware Fault, code: 2667
    > > Aug 31 08:15:49 vsphere-zfs01 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
    > /pci at 0,0/pci8086,1905 at 1,1/pci1000,3180 at 0 (mpt_sas0):
    >
    > The driver is reporting that the MPT IOC (IO Controller) is reporting a
    > fault. It's just reading this condition off the controller chip itself, and
    > unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a handy reference published by
    > LSI/Avago regarding what 2667h actually means.
    >
    > However I note from your machine's hostname that this is perhaps a ESI
    > guest that is being given the HBA in passthrough mode? It would seem that
    > someone else has encountered a similar issue as yourself in this case, with
    > the same MPT fault code, but on Linux running Proxmox. According to this
    > forum thread, they ended up flashing the firmware on the card to something
    > newer and the problem went away:
    >
    > https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pci-passthrough.16483/
    >
    > I would suggest Tim's approach and flashing your card up to the newest IT
    > (not IR) firmware.
    >
    > /dale
    >
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