[rescue] 3ware raid

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

Responding to my own post... and to put it out there how I got the card 
'back'.
(but still not visible under Linux)

After removing the BBU (Battery Backup Unit), the card's BIOS would come up
and the system would POST.  (I also had the raid drives disconnected, 
but not
sure that is necessary).  I then reattached the BBU (next day), and the card
the posted fine.  So the card is ok? now.

Still not visible in Linux (even with lspci).  I think Linux is not 
seeing/using
a PCI<->PCI bridge or something correctly.  I don't think it is seeing 
any PCI-X
at all.  I'm trying to follow that line now as it really isn't of any 
use a system
with PCI-X when the OS I would plan to use on it won't see any PCI-X 
cards :-(

I'd consider going back to Solaris for Intel.... however with Oracle not 
sharing
patch updates, I hesitate to consider it.

-- Curt


Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> Zachary Giles wrote:
>> Interesting.. I never thought about flashing the bios on it. I'll be
>> sure to be cautious about that.
>>
>> Unfortunately I do have 4 of these. They're 9500S-8 PCI-X133. I
>> figured they would work with OpenSolaris but don't seem to.. Anyone
>> have success or ideas ?
>> Or are you flashing them to try and get them to work?
>>   
>
> I was flashing them as the firmware was old, the card wasn't beeing seen
> under Linux, and when I had tried a 4 drive raid 0 stripe and had a block
> go bad... with one file getting corrupted.  I tested each drive 
> individually,
> no errors.... weird....
>
> So I was just flashing to make it current, and hoping that Linux would 
> then
> see it w/o requiring a custom compiled kernel module.
>
> -- Curt
>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.
>> <rescue at hawkmountain.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>>>    
>>>>> hopefully with the broad range of experience on the group someone 
>>>>> will
>>>>> have seen
>>>>> this before and can save this card from becoming gold scrap....
>>>>>         
>>>> While I haven't encountered that exact issue, I've dealt with their 
>>>> cards.
>>>> Lots of them.
>>>>
>>>> Is it a PCI, PCI-X, PCI 64, etc? Which card? Is it in the right 
>>>> type of
>>>> slot?
>>>>       
>>> PCI-X 133
>>>    
>>>> Do you have another computer you can test the card in? To make sure 
>>>> it's
>>>> not some sort of 3ware+bios versus motherboard bios issue?
>>>>       
>>> actually if I removed the battery backup board, I was able to get the
>>>     
>> system
>>  
>>> to post.
>>> I'll try re-adding it tomorrow night.
>>>    
>>>> I assume the writing of the flash worked all the way?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> yes
>>>    
>>>> What if you disconnect all of the drives? Will it boot then?
>>>>       
>>> no
>>>
>>>    
>>>> If so, downgrade firmware?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> tough to do when the system wouldn't post to boot dos to run the
>>>     
>> flasher....
>>  
>>>> Can you set the PC motherboard to boot from another drive first, 
>>>> and not
>>>> the SCSI/add in? If so, will that get you the ability to downgrade
>>>>       
>> firmware?
>>  
>>> no... couldn't post into BIOS
>>>
>>> I started flashing, as Linux is not seeing this raid controller.  I 
>>> tried
>>>     
>> it
>>  
>>> on the same
>>> hardware with Windows 7 and it had worked fine.  looks like the 3w-9xxx
>>> driver
>>> in Linux is not working with this card.
>>>
>>> Going to work to get the array (which contained no data) back up 
>>> with the
>>> card and
>>> battery backup module.  If I get in, then I'm going to build a new .ko
>>> module with
>>> source from LSI.
>>>
>>> Maybe that will get this card seen.
>>>
>>> I have to say I'm pretty shocked the drivers that come with CentOS 6.0
>>> doesn't see it.
>>>
>>> oddly, I don't see the card in an lspci output... I'd think even w/o 
>>> the
>>> driver loaded
>>> shouldn't lspci see all cards ?
>>>
>>> Hope this isn't getting too off the rescue topic (trying to rescue 
>>> and make
>>> use of
>>> the card, but it is not all that old :-) ).
>>>
>>> -- Curt
>>>
>>>    
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>> -- 
>> Zach Giles
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