On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > My planned box will be a stable gentoo installation so that will mean > 3.8.13 for now. No problem, I assume.
No problem, I think the mpt2sas driver appeared in kernel around 2.6.3X series. > Thanks for your description ... good luck with that! > I will maybe pre-install that system in a VM until the hardware gets > here ;-) Today I installed my drives into the SAS enclosure. Everything is working great and I'm getting maximum speed from all drives with simultaneous access. So far I have not experienced any errors or problems. Hopefully your luck is as good as mine! Here is how it looks in dmesg: [ 4.260179] mpt2sas version 14.100.00.00 loaded [ 4.265444] mpt2sas0: 64 BIT PCI BUS DMA ADDRESSING SUPPORTED, total mem (32800384 kB) [ 4.265498] mpt2sas 0000:06:00.0: irq 98 for MSI/MSI-X [ 4.265607] mpt2sas0-msix0: PCI-MSI-X enabled: IRQ 98 [ 4.265609] mpt2sas0: iomem(0x00000000fe3c0000), mapped(0xffffc90000038000), size(16384) [ 4.265611] mpt2sas0: ioport(0x000000000000b000), size(256) [ 4.344822] mpt2sas0: sending message unit reset !! [ 4.346817] mpt2sas0: message unit reset: SUCCESS [ 4.390041] mpt2sas0: Allocated physical memory: size(4219 kB) [ 4.390048] mpt2sas0: Current Controller Queue Depth(1867), Max Controller Queue Depth(2040) [ 4.390052] mpt2sas0: Scatter Gather Elements per IO(128) [ 4.450285] mpt2sas0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(16.00.00.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.31.00.00) [ 4.450291] mpt2sas0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ) [ 4.453850] mpt2sas0: sending port enable !! [ 4.459383] mpt2sas0: host_add: handle(0x0001), sas_addr(0x500605b0060f40d0), phys(8) [ 4.464832] mpt2sas0: port enable: SUCCESS The disks appear as SCSI disks like normal, but with the SAS address included: [ 4.466217] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST4000DM000-1F21 CC52 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 4.466228] scsi 10:0:0:0: SATA: handle(0x0009), sas_addr(0x4433221100000000), phy(0), device_name(0x5000c500508bcc46) [ 4.466234] scsi 10:0:0:0: SATA: enclosure_logical_id(0x500605b0060f40d0), slot(0) [ 4.466359] scsi 10:0:0:0: atapi(n), ncq(y), asyn_notify(n), smart(y), fua(y), sw_preserve(y) [ 4.466369] scsi 10:0:0:0: qdepth(32), tagged(1), simple(0), ordered(0), scsi_level(7), cmd_que(1) [ 4.466710] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [ 4.467172] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 7814037168 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 TB/3.63 TiB) [ 4.467180] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 4096-byte physical blocks Good luck, Paul
