On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:13:15PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > > >> Le Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:47:11 +0300 > > >> Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> écrivait: > > >> > > >> > Any replies from Supermicro/LSI ? > > >> > > > >> > > >> Only loosely related, but Supermicro replaced recently my 846E26 (dual > > >> expander backplane) with 846E16 (single expander). Apparently they > > >> gave up getting the E26 to work properly or something: LSI expander > > >> firmware problem. > > >> > > >> In another (very large scale, high end) setup, many different 60 slots > > >> 5 LSI expanders chassis had a general failure of the 5th drawer. > > >> Another LSI SAS-2 expander firmware problem. > > >> > > >> I could start a rant about the evil of proprietary firmware, etc. You > > >> get my meaning :) > > >> > > > > > > Yeah, this is a good example why we're trying to get the LEDs working with > > > direct attach (non-expander) backplanes :) > > > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > > > I don't have anything useful for people, other than that they have > > shown me an HBA firmware that fixes the LED problem but has other > > problems they're still debugging. > > > > So there does exist code for this firmware which will fix this problem. > > > > That's good to know! Let's hope the fix ends up in an official > LSI HBA firmware update in not-so-distant future. > Btw what was the version number of the LED-fixed LSI firmware? I'm just wondering in which firmware series the fix might end up being included.. Also: Any updates on this? Thanks, -- Pasi -- 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
