On 12/9/10 10:59 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:41 -0800, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Greetings,
Is it possible to issue a low level device reset to a PMC-Sierra PM8388
24x3G SAS expander using either sg3_utils or smp_utils?
I am able to enumerate and read the status of the phys on the PM8388,
read end device information, etc. I tried sg_reset and it does a bus
reset but not an expander reset.
Technical documentation on the PM8388 is not readily available so I do
not know if it has a mode select bit or other special method to get the
expander to reset itself.
I am looking for an inband method to reset the expander to clear a
condition where some phys in a wide connection fail to link. A power
cycle clears the condition and I am looking to mimic a power cycle by
bouncing the expander at the lowest level possible via the SAS host
connection.
There's no protocol defined way to reset an expander using SMP
functions, so it's not really possible to do it in-band. It's sort of
like asking if there's an ethernet packet you can send to a switch to
cause it to reset.
Now that would be fun.... =)
If the wide port isn't forming, you could try doing a hard reset of all
the phys in the port.
I have tried that from the hba side using lsiutil and it did not clear
the condition. I will try the expander phys and see if the result is any
better.
When the wide port fails to form the error I see on the three phys that
fail to link (from the PM8388 exp side) is "sspl reg trigger error"
--Jeff
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