[Bug 37452] fusion mpt sas driver does not find a RAID1 disk during installation(Sun Galaxy X4200 and X4100)

[allee]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 linux-image-2.6.15-19-amd64-generic (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Hi,
I've tried to install Kubuntu Dapper  AMD64 on a Sun Galaxy X4100 and X4200 with 2 disks.  They have the builtin RAID controler:

LSI Logic Corp. MPT SAS BIOS
MPTBIOS-6.02.00.00 (2005.07.08)
Copyright 2000-2005 LSI Logic Corp.
LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility  v6.02.00.00 (2005.07.08) 

Installer find the non-raid disks without problems.  But when the builtin
RAID1 of the Fusion LSI controller is used (have not tried RAID5) the
installer/driver  does not find the RAID disk.  (And therefore install fails
with no disk for root found.)

SLES 9 has no problems recognizing the RAID0 array.  From SLES9 dmesg:

SCSI subsystem initialized
Fusion MPT base driver 3.02.62suse
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.02.62suse
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: SAS1064: Capabilities={Initiator}
scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1064, FwRev=01040000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=267, IRQ=22
  Vendor: LSILOGIC  Model: Logical Volume    Rev: 3000
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 142577664 512-byte hdwr sectors (73000 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 sda2
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0


On a running Dapper installation linux-image-2.6.15-19-amd64-k8 with a single non-RAID disk, dmesg shows this:

[   99.369955] SCSI subsystem initialized
[   99.370968] Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.04
[   99.370970] Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
[   99.372517] Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.03.04
[   99.372556] GSI 16 sharing vector 0xA9 and IRQ 16
[   99.372558] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[   99.372574] mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
[   99.867579] ioc0: SAS1064: Capabilities={Initiator}
[  105.637274] scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1064, FwRev=01040000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511, IRQ=169
[  105.643978]   Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MAV2073RCSUN72G   Rev: 0301
[  105.643984]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
[  105.659188] SCSI device sda: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
[  105.660381] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
[  105.661453] SCSI device sda: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
[  105.662647] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
[  105.662651]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[  105.679890] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda

In case RAID disks are exptected to work in Dapper I can shuffle some
disks and try some of the following with AMD64 (and/or I686)

o life installation
o retry a RAID1 (and/or RAID5) installation.
o or a simple disk + RAID1 installation.

Please let me know that info/tests are most useful for you.

Thx,
Achim
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fusion mpt sas driver does not find a RAID1 disk during installation(Sun Galaxy X4200 and X4100)
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37452