Hello again, I tried with Debian Squeeze with the latest backports kernel 2.6.38, which has mpt2sas version 07.100.00.00 and now the disks are ordered this way: /dev/sdb = slot 3 /dev/sdc = slot 2 /dev/sdd = slot 1 /dev/sde = slot 0 /dev/sdf = slot 7 /dev/sdg = slot 6 /dev/sdh = slot 5 /dev/sdi = slot 4 So there's more consistency here but still ordered backwards (per port) Kind regards, Caspar Smit 2011/5/13 Caspar Smit <c.smit@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
