megasas: failed to get PD list

megasas: failed to get PD list

[Peter Andersson]

Hi.
I'm having major problems with my "MegaRAID SAS 9240-81" raid 
controller. Basically the kernel doesn't find my raid drives.

Bios version: 4.38.02.0 (January 16 2014)
The bios of the raid controller shows a fully working (and initialized) 
raid 0.

Kernel: 3.15.1-031501-generic (ubuntu server 14.04)

This is the full dmesg regarding the card:

[    0.902723] megasas: 06.803.01.00-rc1 Mon. Mar. 10 17:00:00 PDT 2014
[    0.902788] megasas: 0x1000:0x0073:0x1000:0x9240: bus 3:slot 0:func 0
[    0.903121] megasas: FW now in Ready state
[    0.903180] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: irq 80 for MSI/MSI-X
[    0.903188] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: [scsi0]: FW supports<0> MSIX 
vector,Online CPUs: <12>,Current MSIX <1>
[    0.924336] megasas_init_mfi: fw_support_ieee=67108864
[    0.924372] megasas: INIT adapter done
[   72.855404] megasas: failed to get PD list

lspci:
03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 
[Falcon] (rev 03)

megaraidsas-status:
-- Arrays informations --
-- ID | Type | Size | Status

-- Disks informations
-- ID | Model | Status | Warnings

After the drives are initialized i also get this message:
Virtual drive handled by bios

That's all i can think to be of interest to you.
Could anyone give me some pointers on what could be wrong?

Thanks!

/Peter

RE: megasas: failed to get PD list

[Kashyap Desai]

Peter:

We will check with Falcon MR controller and will get back to you. Can you
quickly check using stable kernel instead of upstream. (Just to check if
it is regression>) ?

~ Kashyap

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-scsi-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Peter Andersson
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 12:01 AM
> To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: megasas: failed to get PD list
>
> Hi.
> I'm having major problems with my "MegaRAID SAS 9240-81" raid
controller.
> Basically the kernel doesn't find my raid drives.
>
> Bios version: 4.38.02.0 (January 16 2014) The bios of the raid
controller shows
> a fully working (and initialized) raid 0.
>
> Kernel: 3.15.1-031501-generic (ubuntu server 14.04)
>
> This is the full dmesg regarding the card:
>
> [    0.902723] megasas: 06.803.01.00-rc1 Mon. Mar. 10 17:00:00 PDT 2014
> [    0.902788] megasas: 0x1000:0x0073:0x1000:0x9240: bus 3:slot 0:func 0
> [    0.903121] megasas: FW now in Ready state
> [    0.903180] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: irq 80 for MSI/MSI-X
> [    0.903188] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: [scsi0]: FW supports<0> MSIX
> vector,Online CPUs: <12>,Current MSIX <1>
> [    0.924336] megasas_init_mfi: fw_support_ieee=67108864
> [    0.924372] megasas: INIT adapter done
> [   72.855404] megasas: failed to get PD list
>
> lspci:
> 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008
> [Falcon] (rev 03)
>
> megaraidsas-status:
> -- Arrays informations --
> -- ID | Type | Size | Status
>
> -- Disks informations
> -- ID | Model | Status | Warnings
>
> After the drives are initialized i also get this message:
> Virtual drive handled by bios
>
> That's all i can think to be of interest to you.
> Could anyone give me some pointers on what could be wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Peter
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Re: megasas: failed to get PD list

[Peter Andersson]

So, I'm replying to my own question here. In case someone else 
experiences the same problems as I did.

After I finally got in contact with LSI support it turns out that the 
9240 cards don't support newer motherboards. (I'm not sure what the 
definition of "newer" is in this case.)
Apparently the card relies on the motherboard to keep track of the 
different raids and disks and newer motherboards isn't capable of doing 
this (for some reason).
In short, there is no solution to this problem and the support tech at 
LSI suggested that I should buy another card.

Hope this helps someone.

/Peter

Kashyap Desai skrev 2014-07-18 13:54:
> Peter:
>
> We will check with Falcon MR controller and will get back to you. Can you
> quickly check using stable kernel instead of upstream. (Just to check if
> it is regression>) ?
>
> ~ Kashyap
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-scsi-
>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Peter Andersson
>> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 12:01 AM
>> To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: megasas: failed to get PD list
>>
>> Hi.
>> I'm having major problems with my "MegaRAID SAS 9240-81" raid
> controller.
>> Basically the kernel doesn't find my raid drives.
>>
>> Bios version: 4.38.02.0 (January 16 2014) The bios of the raid
> controller shows
>> a fully working (and initialized) raid 0.
>>
>> Kernel: 3.15.1-031501-generic (ubuntu server 14.04)
>>
>> This is the full dmesg regarding the card:
>>
>> [    0.902723] megasas: 06.803.01.00-rc1 Mon. Mar. 10 17:00:00 PDT 2014
>> [    0.902788] megasas: 0x1000:0x0073:0x1000:0x9240: bus 3:slot 0:func 0
>> [    0.903121] megasas: FW now in Ready state
>> [    0.903180] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: irq 80 for MSI/MSI-X
>> [    0.903188] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: [scsi0]: FW supports<0> MSIX
>> vector,Online CPUs: <12>,Current MSIX <1>
>> [    0.924336] megasas_init_mfi: fw_support_ieee=67108864
>> [    0.924372] megasas: INIT adapter done
>> [   72.855404] megasas: failed to get PD list
>>
>> lspci:
>> 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008
>> [Falcon] (rev 03)
>>
>> megaraidsas-status:
>> -- Arrays informations --
>> -- ID | Type | Size | Status
>>
>> -- Disks informations
>> -- ID | Model | Status | Warnings
>>
>> After the drives are initialized i also get this message:
>> Virtual drive handled by bios
>>
>> That's all i can think to be of interest to you.
>> Could anyone give me some pointers on what could be wrong?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> /Peter
>> --
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