Hi,
Recently I bought Intel Pentium D 945 (3.45GHz), Supermicro PDSME
(Intel E7320), and LSI21320RB (PCI-X SCSI HBA using LSI 53C1030). I
installed 6.2-RC1 to an old PATA HDD and attached it to the
motherboard, and it worked fine. However, I installed 21320RB and
made several SCSI HDDs attached, some strange problems occurred.
First, 21320RB was recognized by the mpt(4) driver. When I tried it
with no HDD it was recognized properly, so I turned off the box and
connected an HDD to it and rebooted it. Then, mpt(4) recognized the
HDD and it worked without problems. I thought it was okay, and
connected more HDDs to the SCSI HBA. More specifically, 21320RB has
two channels, so I connected two hardware RAID boxes which actually
contain five HDDs each and are seen as one large HDD to each channel.
When I rebooted the box after that, device probing at boot time
stopped just before "Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle".
Everything including keyboard does not work at that time, I turned
off the box and disconnect the RAID boxes. After several trials,
I found that 21320RB's behavior was somewhat strange:
- with no HDD:
Works fine basically, but after two or more HDDs recognized, it
freezes during device probing (just before Waiting... message) even
if the HDDs removed. Setting the card's configuration as "factory
default" via BIOS setting seems to recover the state.
- with one HDD:
Works fine after it is recognized.
- with two HDDs:
Does not work if two HDDs are connected to each channel. BIOS
message from the HBA is normal, but FreeBSD device probing keeps
failing in the following two forms:
a) Freeze just before "Waiting..." message.
b) Freeze after "Waiting..." message.
In b), mpt(4) seems to reset the buses and wait the responses, but
I saw after displaying "unretryable error" it freeze when
"boot -v"
used.
I tried booting the box with no SCSI HDD, connecting HDDs after the
boot, and doing "camcontrol rescan all". It recognizes the
connected HDDs successfully, and it can be accessed fine even if it
is more than one. However, simultaneous access causes solid freeze
again.
Then I tried a RAID box which has one ID and several LUN numbers
corresponding to the HDDs. It recognized as normal, multiple HDDs
at boot time, and can be accessed. Simultaneous access works, too.
After that, I tried daisy-chaining two RAID boxes and connected the
two to a channel of the SCSI HBA. These RAID boxes have ID=0 and
ID=1. FreeBSD freezes after "Waiting..." message this time.
In short, I could make this configuration work fine only when a RAID
box (or SCSI HDD) is connected to the HBA, or multiple HDDs that have
the same ID and different LUN number from each other are connected.
I investigated the following:
- 6.1R sometimes probes the two HDDs case, but accessing it makes the
box freeze.
- 2006 Nov 7-CURRENT snapshot probes the two HDDs case, but the HDDs
are recognized as very slow devices such as 6MB/s, and accessing
it makes the box freeze, too.
- When the box freezes just before "Waiting..." message, "boot
-v"
does not display any detail messages there. In after "Waiting.."
case, several messages are displayed from mpt(4).
- No panic in either case. In all cases, it silently freezes and
does not respond to Ctrl-Alt-ESC.
- When I use Intel D865GBF (motherboard with Intel 865 chipset), the
same HBA, and the same RAID boxes, they work fine on 6.1-RC1. The
HBA is connected to 33MHz PCI bus, not PCI-X, so it may make some
differences.
Any suggestions for what I should do for this problem? I can send
more detail information from "boot -v" and/or dev.mpt.0.debug=5, but
not sure which message is important for diagnosing.
--
| Hiroki SATO
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