O. Hartmann
2011-Jun-29 08:19 UTC
Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB
On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB
SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported
as 2TB disk only.
The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). The
drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition.
I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel
ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive as
expected.
I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD > 2TB, but
this issue seems not to be a tool-issue.
Questions:
a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue
which can be solved?
b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the Dell
PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I said, the
firmware is quite old, it's from 2007.
Thanks in advance,
Oliver
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FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #266 r223622: Tue Jun 28 09:38:38 CEST 2011
root@thusnelda.geoinf.fu-berlin.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THUSNELDA amd64
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (2493.76-MHz
K8-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x10676 Family = 6 Model = 17
Stepping = 6
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
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AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
avail memory = 16522498048 (15757 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL PE_SC3 >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2
cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3
cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4
cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5
cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6
cpu7 (AP): APIC ID: 7
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
aesni0: No AESNI support.
acpi0: <DELL PE_SC3> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
[...]
mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem
0xfc4fc000-0xfc4fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4effff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
mpt0: [ITHREAD]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.14.0
mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 )
mpt0: 0 Active Volumes (2 Max)
mpt0: 0 Hidden Drive Members (14 Max)
[...]
ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 0, firmware rev. 2.10, version 2.0
ipmi0: Number of channels 4
ipmi0: Attached watchdog
da0 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ATA Hitachi HUA72107 A74A> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da0: 300.000MB/s transfers
da0: Command Queueing enabled
da0: 715404MB (1465149168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 91201C)
da1 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <ATA WDC WD30EZRX-00M 0A80> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da1: 300.000MB/s transfers
da1: Command Queueing enabled
da1: 2097151MB (4294967295 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 267349C)
ses0 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 8 lun 0
ses0: <DP BACKPLANE 1.05> Fixed Enclosure Services SCSI-5 device
ses0: 300.000MB/s transfers
ses0: SCSI-3 SES Device
cd0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
cd0:
<TEAC DVD-ROM DV28EV D.AE> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 65534bytes)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
- tray closed
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #7 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #4 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #6 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #5 Launched!
Jeremy Chadwick
2011-Jun-29 08:34 UTC
Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:58:02AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:> On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 > TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is > reported as 2TB disk only. > > The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). > The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition. > > I tried the 3 TB harddrive on a FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT box with Intel > ICH10R SATA chipset and it worked fine, was reported as 2.7TB drive > as expected. > > I found some postings concerning mptutil not dealing with HD > 2TB, > but this issue seems not to be a tool-issue. > > Questions: > a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS > issue which can be solved? > > b) regarding to a), how can I update the BIOS/MPT firmware of the > Dell PowerEdge 1950? Is there an option to do this via USB? As I > said, the firmware is quite old, it's from 2007.The answer is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/147572 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
Joshua Boyd
2011-Jun-29 13:58 UTC
Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive > 2TB
2011/6/29 O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>> Questions: > a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue > which can be solved? >Hi Oliver, Neither, unfortunately. The 1068E based cards do not support drives over 2TB. See here: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16399.aspx -- Joshua Boyd E-mail: boydjd@jbip.net http://www.jbip.net