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From: Caspar Smit <c.smit@truebit.nl>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: mpt2sas: bug in disk ordering?
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:19:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=SsdjeHJOU_we+kZMgM0qm7eaVjg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I'm having a minor issue with the disk ordering using an LSI 9211-8i
(mpt2sas) controller.

If i go into the controllers SAS config utility during boot I can
identify the disks in the slots.

disk 0 -> slot 0, disk 1 -> slot 1, etc.. everyhting is fine.

When I boot into debian linux lenny (using the latest backports
2.6.32-31 kernel, this kernel has version 02.100.03.00 of the mpt2sas
driver)

The disks are ordered this way:

/dev/sda = internal SSD connected to the MB

/dev/sdb = slot 0
/dev/sdc = slot 1
/dev/sdd = slot 2
/dev/sde = slot 3
/dev/sdf = slot 7 (!)
/dev/sdg = slot 4
/dev/sdh = slot 5
/dev/sdi = slot 6

So it seems the first 4 disks connected to SAS port 1 are ordered
correctly and the last 4 disks are not.

When I check /dev/disk/by-path i see the following:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52 pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-
0x500605b001d161b0:1:0-0x4433221103000000:0 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:1-0x4433221102000000:0 ->
../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:2-0x4433221101000000:0 ->
../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:3-0x4433221100000000:0 ->
../../sde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:4-0x4433221104000000:0 ->
../../sdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:5-0x4433221107000000:0 ->
../../sdg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:6-0x4433221106000000:0 ->
../../sdh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2011-05-13 10:52
pci-0000:04:00.0-sas-0x500605b001d161b0:1:7-0x4433221105000000:0 ->
../../sdi

This LOOKS as it should but right now it is not really correct because
1:7 indicates that it should be physical slot 7 (sdi is in slot 6 and
not in slot 7)

When i use the sas2ircu command line util to LOCATE the disks and I
use 1:7 to locate, slot 7 lights up (NOT disk sdi)

Is this behavior fixed in a newer version of the driver, and if so
what is the corresponding patch to fix this?

Kind regards,

Caspar Smit
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             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-13  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-13  9:19 Caspar Smit [this message]
2011-05-13 10:34 ` mpt2sas: bug in disk ordering? Caspar Smit
2011-05-13 10:37   ` Arne Jansen
2011-05-13 10:41     ` Caspar Smit
2011-05-13 10:51       ` Arne Jansen
2011-05-13 10:56         ` Caspar Smit
2011-05-13 11:15   ` Desai, Kashyap
2011-05-13 11:46     ` Caspar Smit
2011-05-13 12:03       ` Billy Crook
2011-05-13 12:05     ` Caspar Smit
2011-05-13 12:09       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-05-13 14:39         ` James Bottomley

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