James C. McPherson wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:01:31 -0700
As a member of the team which works on mpt(7d), I'm disappointed that\
you believe you need to use lsiutil to "fully access all the functionality"
of the board.
What gaps have you found in mpt(7d) and the standard OpenSolaris
tools that lsiutil fixes for you?
What is the "full functionality" that you believe is missing?
How does one upgrade firmware without using lsiutil?
Or toggle controller LEDs to identify which board is which, or...
Feel free to read the lsiutil docs (bad though they are) - the PDF is
available from the LSI web site.
Although both lsiutil and hd produce errors from mpt when trying to get
SMART data (specifically "Command failed with IOCStatus = 0045 (Data
Underrun)"). I haven't tried using the LSI provided drivers.
As for identifying disks, you can just use lsiutil:
... or use cfgadm(1m) which has had this ability for many years.
Great. Please provide a sample command line. Because the man page is
completely useless (no, really - try reading it). And no invocation _I_
can find provides the same information. I can only assume it's one of
the "hardware specific" options, which are documented nowhere that I can
find.
Note that my comments all releate to Solaris 10 u7 - it's certainly
possible that things are better in OpenSolaris.
--
Carson
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