zfs discuss - Feb 2010 - Identifying firmware version of SATA controller (LSI)

Trying to track down why our two Intel X-25E''s are spewing out
Write/Retryable errors when being used as a ZIL (mirrored).  The
system is running a LSI1068E controller with LSISASx36 expander
(box built by Silicon Mechanics).

The drives are fairly new, and it seems odd that both of the pair would
start showing errors at the same time....

I''m trying to figure out where I can find the firmware on the LSI
controller... are the bootup messages the only place I could expect to
see this?  prtconf and prtdiag both don''t appear to give firmware
information.

We have another nearly identical box that isn''t showing these errors
which is why I want to compare firmware versions... the boot logs on
the "good" server have been rotated out so I can''t find a
Firmware
number for the mpt0 device in its logs to compare with.

Solaris 10 U8 x86.

Thanks,
Ray

rvandolson at esri.com said:
> I''m trying to figure out where I can find the firmware on the LSI
> controller... are the bootup messages the only place I could expect to see
> this?  prtconf and prtdiag both don''t appear to give firmware
information.
> . . .
> Solaris 10 U8 x86.
The "raidctl" command is your friend;  Useful for updating firmware
if you choose to do so, as well.  You can also find the revisions in
the output of "prtconf -Dv", search for "firm" in the long
list.

Regards,

Marion