LSI SAS 1078 not detected when installing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Fedora) |
Won't Fix
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Critical
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.27
Trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 on an IBM 3950 M2 with:
- Chipset ICH7
- Integrated network card Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Eternet (rev 06)
- Network card Intel Pro/1000 PT 82571EB (4 ports)
- LSI Logic/Symbios Logic SAS 1078 PCI-Express Fusion MPT SAS (rev ff)
- RSA card
All devices appear correctly in an lspci command. During the install process, only the Broadcom network card is detected, although the e1000e driver is loaded. During the disk detection, no disks are found, although the mptsas driver is loaded.
Here you are some information I manually copied from the screen of the server (dmesg while detecting the network hardware):
[..]
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.07
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation
mptsas 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 46 (level, low) -> IRQ 46
mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup
e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.3.3.3-k6
e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation.
ioc0: LSISAS1078 C2: Capabilities=
mptbase: ioc0: PCI-MSI enabled
mptsas 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Calgary: DMA error on CalIOC2 PHB 0x3
Calgary: 0x02000000@CSR 0x00000000@PLSSR 0xb0008000@CSMR 0x00000000@MCK
Calgary: 0x00000000@0x810 0xfee0c000@0x820 0x00000000@0x830 0x00000000@0x840 0x03804a00@0x850 0x00000000@0x860 0x00000000@0x870
Calgary: 0x00000000@0xcb0
mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery
mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - Unexpected doorbell active!
mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - NOT READY!
mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - Cannot recover rc = -1!
mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - Firmware Reload FAILED!
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 48342981112 ns)
And here you are part of the result of the lspci command (copied manually, too):
04:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1078 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev ff)
20:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06)
20:00.1 Idem.
21:00.0 Idem.
21:00.1 Idem.
I have been searching the Internet for hours with no luck. I have tried disabling the onboard LAN controller with no luck.
Changed in linux (Fedora): | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in linux (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Managed to sort out the problem by booting both the installer and the installed kernel 2.6.27-X with the parameter iommu=soft. iommu=off did not work. Attached you'll find a lspci. Hope it helps. I've seen the guys at Red Hat updated their kernel in Red Hat Enterprise 9 with a workaround for this issue, which is related to MSI (IBM's Calgary implementation) and not the disk controller by LSI.