On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > The fixed FW I had demonstrated for me was still 14.0.0.0 - I've been told it'll be rolled into the FW release currently on the site and posted at some point, but that they have no ETA for that. - Rich -- 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
