So, people here recommended the Marvell cards, and one even provided a link to acquire them for SATA jbod support. Well, this is what the latest bits (B47) say: Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to get the chip stepping Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: marvell88sx1: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to get the chip stepping Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to get the chip stepping Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: marvell88sx1: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to get the chip stepping Any takers on how to get around this one?
Joe Little wrote:> So, people here recommended the Marvell cards, and one even provided a > link to acquire them for SATA jbod support. Well, this is what the > latest bits (B47) say: > > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > get the chip stepping > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > marvell88sx1: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > get the chip stepping > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > get the chip stepping > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > marvell88sx1: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > get the chip stepping > > Any takers on how to get around this one?You could start by providing the output from "prtpicl -v" and "prtconf -v" as well as "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v -V 1" so we know which device you''re actually having a problem with. Is the pci vendor+deviceid for that card listed in your /etc/driver_aliases file against the marvell88sx driver? James
On 9/12/06, James C. McPherson <James.C.McPherson at gmail.com> wrote:> Joe Little wrote: > > So, people here recommended the Marvell cards, and one even provided a > > link to acquire them for SATA jbod support. Well, this is what the > > latest bits (B47) say: > > > > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > > marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > > get the chip stepping > > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > > marvell88sx1: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > > get the chip stepping > > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > > marvell88sx0: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > > get the chip stepping > > Sep 12 13:51:54 vram marvell88sx: [ID 679681 kern.warning] WARNING: > > marvell88sx1: Could not attach, unsupported chip stepping or unable to > > get the chip stepping > > > > Any takers on how to get around this one? > > You could start by providing the output from "prtpicl -v" and > "prtconf -v" as well as "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v -V 1" so we > know which device you''re actually having a problem with. > > Is the pci vendor+deviceid for that card listed in your > /etc/driver_aliases file against the marvell88sx driver? > > > James >I don''t know if you really want all those large files, but /etc/driver_aliases lists: marvell88sx "pci11ab,6081.9" root at vram:~# lspci | grep Marv 03:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 07) 05:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 07) root at vram:~# lspci -n | grep 11ab 03:01.0 0100: 11ab:6081 (rev 07) 05:01.0 0100: 11ab:6081 (rev 07) And it sees the module: 198 f5710000 9f10 62 1 marvell88sx (marvell88sx HBA Driver v1.8) Is this a support revision of the card? Is there something stupid like enabling the jumpers or some such that''s required?
If I''m reading the source correctly, for the $60xx boards, the only supported revision is $09. Yours is $07, which presumably has some errata with no workaround, and which the Solaris driver refuses to support. Hope you can return it ... ? This message posted from opensolaris.org
A quick peek at the Linux source shows a small workaround in place for the 07 revision...maybe if you file a bug against Solaris to support this revision it might be possible to get it added, at least if that''s the only issue. This message posted from opensolaris.org
Yeah. I got the message from a few others, and we are hoping to return/buy the newer one. I''ve sort of surprised by the limited set of SATA RAID or JBOD cards that one can actually use. Even the one''s linked to on this list sometimes aren''t supported :). I need to get up and running like yesterday, so we are just ordering the cards post haste. On 9/13/06, Anton B. Rang <Anton.Rang at sun.com> wrote:> A quick peek at the Linux source shows a small workaround in place for the 07 revision...maybe if you file a bug against Solaris to support this revision it might be possible to get it added, at least if that''s the only issue. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >