LSI SAS3041X-R SATA in SB1500?

Prompted by others reporting success in running a LSI Logic SAS
SAS3041X-R PCI-X 133 SAS/SATA Adapter in a SB2500

(http://groups.google.com/group/comp....browse_thread/
thread/9f6bb9ad551ff7c3/7f41022447f9282e?
hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sas3041x+sb1500#)

I got one for my SB1500 and attached a 1TB Seagate SATA disk on
Solaris 10U6. The good news is that the Sun sees the drive and can
even get through a full surface test in format.

However, when used more generally it keeps getting "disk gone
messages" and bad block messages (although no bad blocks in read/write
surface test in format).

If I load the OS on it with a root UFS, the load succeeds but it dies
on boot. Using a ZFS root on it, I can boot all the way up. However,
after a little idle the disk spins down and the system hangs.

Any ideas?

Hi,

wrote:
> Prompted by others reporting success in running a LSI Logic SAS
> SAS3041X-R PCI-X 133 SAS/SATA Adapter in a SB2500
>
> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp....browse_thread/
> thread/9f6bb9ad551ff7c3/7f41022447f9282e?
> hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sas3041x+sb1500#)
>
> I got one for my SB1500 and attached a 1TB Seagate SATA disk on
> Solaris 10U6. The good news is that the Sun sees the drive and can
> even get through a full surface test in format.
>
> However, when used more generally it keeps getting "disk gone
> messages" and bad block messages (although no bad blocks in read/write
> surface test in format).
Is the drive and cables fine?

>
> If I load the OS on it with a root UFS, the load succeeds but it dies
> on boot. Using a ZFS root on it, I can boot all the way up. However,
> after a little idle the disk spins down and the system hangs.
>
> Any ideas?
Did you manage to boot off the SATA drive, how did you do that?

I have not have any problems so far but I did not manage to boot off it!


/michael

Michael Laajanen schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> wrote:
>> Prompted by others reporting success in running a LSI Logic SAS
>> SAS3041X-R PCI-X 133 SAS/SATA Adapter in a SB2500
>>
>> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp....browse_thread/
>> thread/9f6bb9ad551ff7c3/7f41022447f9282e?
>> hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sas3041x+sb1500#)
>>
>> I got one for my SB1500 and attached a 1TB Seagate SATA disk on
>> Solaris 10U6. The good news is that the Sun sees the drive and can
>> even get through a full surface test in format.
>>
>> However, when used more generally it keeps getting "disk gone
>> messages" and bad block messages (although no bad blocks in read/write
>> surface test in format).
> Is the drive and cables fine?
>
>>
>> If I load the OS on it with a root UFS, the load succeeds but it dies
>> on boot. Using a ZFS root on it, I can boot all the way up. However,
>> after a little idle the disk spins down and the system hangs.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> Did you manage to boot off the SATA drive, how did you do that?
>
> I have not have any problems so far but I did not manage to boot off it!
>
>
> /michael
>

Hi Michael,

I just receive mine SAS3041XL-S, which is as far as I can see the low
profile variant of the SAS3041X-R. With this HBA in my SB2500 I can see
my SATA disks from OBP, but I haven't tried yet booting from them yet.
Can you see your SATA disks in OBP? What kind of failure are you seeing,
when you try to boot from one of the SATA disks?

I had SAS3040 before, which seems to be a prototype board of the 3041
variant. This board didn't show the disks in OBP, but it worked fine
with Solaris' mpt driver.

Concerning the OP's problem: I guess you have some kind of cable issue.
Disks spinning down could also hint that your power supply is
insufficient, but only if your disks are in a separate case. Otherwise
the whole system would probably go down once you drive the power supply
to the edge...

- Thomas

Hi,

Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
> Michael Laajanen schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> wrote:
>>> Prompted by others reporting success in running a LSI Logic SAS
>>> SAS3041X-R PCI-X 133 SAS/SATA Adapter in a SB2500
>>>
>>> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp....browse_thread/
>>> thread/9f6bb9ad551ff7c3/7f41022447f9282e?
>>> hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sas3041x+sb1500#)
>>>
>>> I got one for my SB1500 and attached a 1TB Seagate SATA disk on
>>> Solaris 10U6. The good news is that the Sun sees the drive and can
>>> even get through a full surface test in format.
>>>
>>> However, when used more generally it keeps getting "disk gone
>>> messages" and bad block messages (although no bad blocks in read/write
>>> surface test in format).
>> Is the drive and cables fine?
>>
>>> If I load the OS on it with a root UFS, the load succeeds but it dies
>>> on boot. Using a ZFS root on it, I can boot all the way up. However,
>>> after a little idle the disk spins down and the system hangs.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> Did you manage to boot off the SATA drive, how did you do that?
>>
>> I have not have any problems so far but I did not manage to boot off it!
>>
>>
>> /michael
>>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I just receive mine SAS3041XL-S, which is as far as I can see the low
> profile variant of the SAS3041X-R. With this HBA in my SB2500 I can see
> my SATA disks from OBP, but I haven't tried yet booting from them yet.
> Can you see your SATA disks in OBP? What kind of failure are you seeing,
> when you try to boot from one of the SATA disks?
Hi, my 2500 is currently not started, I will get the machine online ASAP
and check.

>
> I had SAS3040 before, which seems to be a prototype board of the 3041
> variant. This board didn't show the disks in OBP, but it worked fine
> with Solaris' mpt driver.
>
> Concerning the OP's problem: I guess you have some kind of cable issue.
> Disks spinning down could also hint that your power supply is
> insufficient, but only if your disks are in a separate case. Otherwise
> the whole system would probably go down once you drive the power supply
> to the edge...
>
> - Thomas

/michael