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

Schweiss, Chip chip at innovates.com
Fri Sep 8 15:38:03 UTC 2017

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    Robert,

    That is awesome.   I'd definitely be interested in testing this.

    I'll get my feet wet with building OmniOS CE with it.

    Thanks!
    -Chip

    On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Robert Mustacchi <rm at joyent.com> wrote:

    > On 9/8/17 6:43 , Schweiss, Chip wrote:
    > > Now that I'm back to working on this.   The only way I could get the
    > > firmware updated was booting into the UEFI shell.   A bit of a pain but
    > it
    > > worked.
    > >
    > > Unfortunately, it has not changed the behavior of the HBA.
    > >
    > > Where do I go from here?    Any hope of getting this working on OmniOS?
    >
    > Hi Chip,
    >
    > I'm just catching up on this. So, I do have some good news and bad news.
    > First, the bad news. This is based on the SAS3224 chipset, which it
    > appears the 16e is also describing itself as. Of note, this uses a
    > slightly newer version of the MPI specification and the driver as it is
    > written doesn't quite notice that it requires slightly different
    > behavior and a simple PCI ID update isn't sufficient.
    >
    > The good news is that I just finished doing this work for the LSI
    > 9305-24i and was going to send that up to illumos shortly. If you want,
    > I can send those changes your way if you're comfortable building illumos
    > and want to test that.
    >
    > Robert
    >
    > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com>
    > wrote:
    > >
    > >> 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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