Re: difference between arcmsr (areca) 1.20.0X.13 & 2.6.20 in treedriver?

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:21:35 -1000 Joshua Hoblitt wrote:

[adding linux-scsi]

> Has anyone else noticed this regression?
> 
> -J
> 
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> From: Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:38:20 -1000
> To: erich@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: difference between 1.20.0X.13 & 2.6.20 in tree driver?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just attempted to upgrade a system from 2.6.17 (gentoo revision 8) w/
> 1.20.0X.13 to 2.6.20 (gentoo revision 4) with the in tree arcmsr driver.
> On the 2.6.17 kernel there are 2 ~4TB partitions that are visible on
> the system as /dev/sdb1 & /dev/sdc1.  When the system is booted with the
> 2.6.20 kernel /dev/sdc1 is gone and /dev/sdb1 is properly reported as a
> 4TB EFI partition but fsck rejects the the filesystem as corrupt.  Is
> this a regression or has there been a fundamental change in the way
> arcmsr represents the array to the block layer?
> 
> Here is the info on the RAID card:
> 
>     Controller Name     ARC-1170
>     Firmware Version    V1.39 2005-12-13
>     BOOT ROM Version    V1.39 2005-12-13
>     Serial Number   Y605CAAVAR700117
>     Unit Serial #    
>     Main Processor  500MHz IOP331
>     CPU ICache Size     32KBytes
>     CPU DCache Size     32KBytes / Write Back
>     System Memory   256MB / 333MHz
> 
> Any idea as to what's going on?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -J
> 
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> Under 2.6.20:
> 
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 ARECA RAID ADAPTER4: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.39 2005-12-13
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 scsi4 : Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable)
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 Driver Version 1.20.00.13
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Areca    ARC-1170-VOL#00  R001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: 8595693568 512-byte hdwr sectors (4400995 MB) 
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb: Write Protect is off
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA 
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). 
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: 8595693568 512-byte hdwr sectors (4400995 MB)
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb: Write Protect is off
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sdb: sdb1
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> Mar 29 15:41:05 ipp000 scsi 4:0:16:0: Processor         Areca    RAID controller  R001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> 
> Under 2.6.17:
> 
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: 64BITS PCI BUS DMA ADDRESSING SUPPORTED
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.39 2005-12-13
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 scsi4 : Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable)
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Driver Version 1.20.0X.13
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Vendor: Areca     Model: ARC-1170-VOL#00   Rev: R001
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: 8595693568 512-byte hdwr sectors (4400995 MB)
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb: Write Protect is off
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: 8595693568 512-byte hdwr sectors (4400995 MB)
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb: Write Protect is off
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb:<4>Alternate GPT is invalid, using primary GPT.
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdb1
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Vendor: Areca     Model: ARC-1170-VOL#01   Rev: R001
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdc: 8595580928 512-byte hdwr sectors (4400937 MB)
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc: Write Protect is off
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdc: 8595580928 512-byte hdwr sectors (4400937 MB)
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc: Write Protect is off
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc: Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sdc: sdc1
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sd 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi disk sdc
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 sd 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Vendor: Areca     Model: RAID controller   Rev: R001
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 4:0:16:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 3
> Mar 29 15:45:11 ipp000 arcmsr device major number 254
> 
> 
> 
> 
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