On 11/5/2016 12:08 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/05/2016 06:40 AM, Steven Tardy wrote: >> What firmware is/are on the cards? > > In the dmesg output I included: > mpt3sas0: LSISAS3008: FWVersion(10.00.00.00), ChipRevision(0x02), > BiosVersion(08.25.00.00) > >> The driver version difference between C6 and C7 could interact badly >> with old firmware. > > I suspected that was the case, and tried running elrepo's > "kmod-mpt3sas" from their testing repo. C7 has version 04.100.00.00, > while elrepo's appears to be 13.100.00.00. That didn't change anything. > >> What firmware does $vendor suggest? > > Haven't asked yet, since the same firmware produces different behavior > on the two OSs. I know with the SAS2 chips (SAS2008, SAS2308, etc), FreeBSD strongly recommends the firmware revision matches the driver revision, so if the driver is P20, the firmware also should be P20. I don't have any SAS3 stuff. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz