Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of LSIFusionMPTSAS2


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12/08/10 21:11:45 (14 years ago)
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Adam Cécile
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  • LSIFusionMPTSAS2

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    99The FusionMPT SAS2 is a low-end card from LSI. It replaces the Fusion MPT cards.
    10 [[BR]]It only supports RAID0 and RAID1 an can usually be found in many 1U rackmount servers which have only two disks drives. However, I must admit I'm not sure yet there's no RAID5 adapter with thoses chips.
     10[[BR]]It only supports RAID0 and RAID1 an can usually be found in many 1U rackmount servers which have only two disks drives. However, I must admit I'm not sure yet there's no RAID5 adapter with theses chips.
    1111[[BR]]Even it's not full of features theses card appear to work fine and are supported by an '''opensource Linux driver'''.
    1212[[BR]]A proprietary monitoring tool is available but it nearly offers '''no management features'''.
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    2020There are many more mpt* drivers in Linux kernel.
    21 [[BR]]Somes seems to be required dependencies. Others looks like being real driver but we haven't used them yet.
     21[[BR]]Some seem to be required dependencies. Others look like being real drivers but we haven't used them yet.
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    2323''mpt2sas'' has been added to Linux kernel '''from 2.6.30 release'''. Thus, it should be available in all '''recent (2010+) Linux distributions'''.
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    2626Some ''lspci -nn'' output examples:
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    28   * 01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller ![0107]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] ![1000:0072] (rev 02) ''Dell PERC H200''
     28  * 01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller ![0107]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] ![1000:0072] (rev 02) '''Dell PERC H200'''
    2929[[BR]]
    3030= 3. Management and reporting tools =
    3131
    3232There's no opensource tool for theses new cards.
    33 [[BR]]However, LSI provide a '''command line management tool''' named sas2ircu. Management features are really '''basic''', so it's better to use is as a '''reporting tool''' only.
     33[[BR]]However, LSI provides a '''command line management tool''' named sas2ircu. Management features are really '''basic''', so it's better to use it as a '''reporting tool''' only.
    3434
    3535== 3.1. sas2ircu ==
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    104104== 3.2. sas2ircu-status ==
    105105
    106 sas2ircu-status is a package I wrote by myself. It includes a python wrapper around tw_cli command and an initscript which daemonize the launch of the wrapper.[[BR]]
     106sas2ircu-status is a package I wrote by myself. It includes a python wrapper around sas2ircu command and an initscript which daemonize the launch of the wrapper.[[BR]]
    107107It also handles failure detection and report it by mail and syslog. It also handle unexpected output changes and reminders until the status is fine again.
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    126126}}}
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    128 '''I haven't been able to really test it yet, so please use it carefully and contact me if you have a server on which one you are able to do some testing (plug disks, unplug, create hotspare...)'''
     128'''I haven't been able to really test it yet, so please use it carefully and contact me if you have a server on which you are able to do some testing (plug disks, unplug, create hotspare...)'''
    129129[[BR]]Use the [http://hwraid.le-vert.net/newticket ticket system] to contact me.
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