[storage-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Dell SAS 5/iR Adapter with the MPT driver

[Nigel Smith]

I recently had access, at work, to a Dell Precision 390 workstation.
Unfortunately it was setup with Windows, but I was able to try it with
the Belenix 0.6.1 LiveCD. The PC was fitted with dual SAS drives
(seagate ST3146855SS) connected to a '5/iR' controller card, plugged
into the PCI-e bus.
Using the card firmware, the drives were setup as a mirrored pair.
I thought it worth reporting here that this card does appear to be
supported by OpenSolaris using the MPT driver.
It looks like the chipset used on the card is the LSI 1068E.
http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068e/index.html

Windows identified this card as "PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0054&SUBSYS_1F091028".
Shown below is edited highlights from a few Solaris commands.
Unfortunately, it seems that the source code for the MPT driver
is NOT available, as the MPT driver is on this list:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/
.. see the 'ON' tab.
Regards,
Nigel Smith

(root at belenix)# /usr/X11/bin/scanpci

pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x08 function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device 0x0054
LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS

(root at belenix)# prtconf -pv

Node 0x000019
 compatible: 'pci1000,54.1028.1f09.1' + 'pci1000,54.1028.1f09' + 'pci1028,1f09' + 'pci1000,54.1' + 'pci1000,54' + 'pciclass,010000' + 'pciclass,0100'
 model:  'SCSI bus controller'
 subsystem-vendor-id:  00001028
 subsystem-id:  00001f09
 vendor-id:  00001000
 device-id:  00000054
 name:  'pci1028,1f09'

(root at belenix)# prtconf -acD /devices/pci at 0,0/pci8086,27d0 at 1c/
i86pc (driver name: rootnex)
   pci, instance #0 (driver name: npe)
       pci8086,27d0, instance #1 (driver name: pcie_pci)
           pci8086,32c, instance #4 (driver name: pcie_pci)
               pci1028,1f09, instance #0 (driver name: mpt)
                   sd, instance #1 (driver name: sd)

(root at belenix)# modinfo
66 febaece0   560c 183   1  npe (Host to PCIe nexus driver 1.7)
70 febb9a60   1934 184   1  pcie_pci (PCIe to PCI nexus driver 1.10)
167 f0d98000  1d2d0  94   1  sd (SCSI Disk Driver 1.553)
171 f0dcd000  30428 169   1  mpt (MPT HBA Driver v1.97)

(root at belenix)# format
Searching for disks...done
c0t0d0: configured with capacity of 135.97GB
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
      0. c0t0d0 <Dell-VIRTUALDISK-1028 cyl 139234 alt 2 hd 16 sec 128>
         /pci at 0,0/pci8086,27d0 at 1c/pci8086,32c at 0/pci1028,1f09 at 8/sd at 0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^D
 
 
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