zfs discuss - Aug 2007 - SiI 3114 Chipset on Syba Card - Solaris Hangs

Hi.

I''m running snv 65 and having an issue much like this:

<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>

Has anyone found a workaround?

Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI information that ZFS uses?

Blake
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Blake wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I''m running snv 65 and having an issue much like this:
>
> <http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html
>
<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>>
>
> Has anyone found a workaround?
>
> Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI information that ZFS
> uses?
>
Are you sure the card doesn''t have a RAID BIOS?  If it does, it will
have to be re-flashed.

Ian

> I''m running snv 65 and having an issue
> much like this:
>    http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html
Bug 6414472?
> Has anyone found a workaround?
You can try to patch my suggested fix for 6414472 into the ata binary
and see if it helps:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=84127&#84127

I don''t have access to the snv_65 media, but for snv_66 (32-bit)
the code has changed slightly, and the instruction to patch
can be found at address "ata_id_common+0x3c",
so the patch procedure would be

    ::bp ata`ata_id_common
    :c
    ::delete 1
    ata_id_common+0x3c?w a6a
    :c
> Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI information that ZFS
> uses?
If it is 6414472: No; BIOS wouldn''t be used any more at the
point 6414472 is hanging the system...
 
 
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I have re-flashed the BIOS.

Blake

On 8/7/07, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com>
wrote:
>
> Blake wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I''m running snv 65 and having an issue much like this:
> >
> > <http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html
> >
<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>>
> >
> > Has anyone found a workaround?
> >
> > Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI information that ZFS
> > uses?
> >
> Are you sure the card doesn''t have a RAID BIOS?  If it does, it
will
> have to be re-flashed.
>
> Ian
>
>
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Some time ago I encountered issues using the odd numbered ports on my 
SIL3114 based card.

I currently use ports 0 and 2 without issue.

I never did get ports 1 and 3 working...

If I have a disk connected to ports 1 or 3, it just conks out on the way 
up when it''s initializing the disks. (Unfortunately, I don''t
remember
for sure, but I think it was a hard hang).

I should likely have bugged it, but the box on which I was doing the 
work fills the role of my gateway to the internet, so I was disinclined 
to spend lots of time trying to break it, when I only needed two disks 
working anyways...

My 2c...

Nathan.

Blake wrote:
> I have re-flashed the BIOS.
> 
> Blake
> 
> On 8/7/07, *Ian Collins* <ian at ianshome.com <mailto:ian at
ianshome.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Blake wrote:
>      > Hi.
>      >
>      > I''m running snv 65 and having an issue much like this:
>      >
>      >
>     <http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html
>    
<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>
>      >
<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>>
>      >
>      > Has anyone found a workaround?
>      >
>      > Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI information
>     that ZFS
>      > uses?
>      >
>     Are you sure the card doesn''t have a RAID BIOS?  If it does,
it will
>     have to be re-flashed.
> 
>     Ian
> 
> 
> 
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I will test for that - interesting.

Blake

On 8/7/07, Nathan Kroenert <Nathan.Kroenert at sun.com>
wrote:
>
> Some time ago I encountered issues using the odd numbered ports on my
> SIL3114 based card.
>
> I currently use ports 0 and 2 without issue.
>
> I never did get ports 1 and 3 working...
>
> If I have a disk connected to ports 1 or 3, it just conks out on the way
> up when it''s initializing the disks. (Unfortunately, I
don''t remember
> for sure, but I think it was a hard hang).
>
> I should likely have bugged it, but the box on which I was doing the
> work fills the role of my gateway to the internet, so I was disinclined
> to spend lots of time trying to break it, when I only needed two disks
> working anyways...
>
> My 2c...
>
> Nathan.
>
> Blake wrote:
> > I have re-flashed the BIOS.
> >
> > Blake
> >
> > On 8/7/07, *Ian Collins* <ian at ianshome.com <mailto:ian at
ianshome.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Blake wrote:
> >      > Hi.
> >      >
> >      > I''m running snv 65 and having an issue much like
this:
> >      >
> >      >
> >    
<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html
> >    
<http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>
> >      > <
> http://osdir.com/ml/solaris.opensolaris.help/2006-11/msg00047.html>>
> >      >
> >      > Has anyone found a workaround?
> >      >
> >      > Or is this the issue with the BIOS not liking EFI
information
> >     that ZFS
> >      > uses?
> >      >
> >     Are you sure the card doesn''t have a RAID BIOS?  If it
does, it will
> >     have to be re-flashed.
> >
> >     Ian
> >
> >
> >
> >
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