On 10/03/12 2:35 PM, Tru Huynh wrote:
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:18:13PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather is related to 'trim' aka 'discard'.
and exactly the same behavior with the latest kernel 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 and e2fsprogs-1.41.12-12.el6.x86_64
firmware issue?
http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?867-OCZ-vertex4-imcompatible-w...
hmm, not sure thats this problem, as the drive seems to work fine as long as I don't use "Discard' aka "SSD trim"...
I've just updated the SAS2 card bios and firmware to the latest, so lets see what happens when I reboot... AHHHH, that fixed it :-/
for future reference...
9211_8i_Package_P14_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows\Firmware\HBA_9211_8i_IR\2118ir.bin and 9211_8i_Package_P14_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows\sasbios_rel\mptsas2.rom
flashed using Installer_P14_for_Linux\sas2flash_linux_i686_x86-64_rel\sas2flash
(the linux package3 doesn't include the firmware, so you need to download the windows package too). the IR firmware supports raid while the IT firmware is just a jbod HBA. my cards were already "IR" even though I'm not using that feature, so I saw no reason to force the restricted firmware on them.
to flash it after you collect the files you need:
# chmod +x sas2flash # ./sas2flash -b mptsas2.rom ..... # ./sas2flash -fwall 2118ir.bin ....
resulting versions are...
# ./sas2flash -listall LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility Version 10.00.00.00 (2011.05.13) Copyright (c) 2008-2011 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved
Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2)
Num Ctlr FW Ver NVDATA x86-BIOS PCI Addr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 SAS2008(B2) 14.00.01.00 0e.03.00.05 07.27.00.00 00:06:00:00
Finished Processing Commands Successfully. Exiting SAS2Flash.
ok, now I can move forward. this had be stymied for 24 hours... I've not run into any problems where I had to update HBA firmware for years and years and years.