Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:13:15PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> > >> Le Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:47:11 +0300
> > >> Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> écrivait:
> > >>
> > >> > Any replies from Supermicro/LSI ?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Only loosely related, but Supermicro replaced recently my 846E26 (dual
> > >> expander backplane) with 846E16 (single expander). Apparently they
> > >> gave up getting the E26 to work properly or something: LSI expander
> > >> firmware problem.
> > >>
> > >> In another (very large scale, high end) setup, many different 60 slots
> > >> 5 LSI expanders chassis had a general failure of the 5th drawer.
> > >> Another LSI SAS-2 expander firmware problem.
> > >>
> > >> I could start a rant about the evil of proprietary firmware, etc. You
> > >> get my meaning :)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yeah, this is a good example why we're trying to get the LEDs working with
> > > direct attach (non-expander) backplanes :)
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > >
> > 
> > I don't have anything useful for people, other than that they have
> > shown me an HBA firmware that fixes the LED problem but has other
> > problems they're still debugging.
> > 
> > So there does exist code for this firmware which will fix this problem.
> > 
> 
> That's good to know! Let's hope the fix ends up in an official 
> LSI HBA firmware update in not-so-distant future.
> 

Btw what was the version number of the LED-fixed LSI firmware?
I'm just wondering in which firmware series the fix might end up being included..

Also: Any updates on this?

Thanks,

-- Pasi

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