LSI1064 SAS

[Andrew-R]

@joevt I get my piece of fun too! (too sad my old SATA hdd 160 Db Samsung appear to hang internal SATA bus if connected, so test will wait until I get new sata storage)

sudo ./lsiutil

LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility, Version 1.72, Sep 09, 2014

01/08/00/0 (SAS1064E B1) is in RESET state, Doorbell is 00000024

1 MPT Port found

     Port Name         Chip Vendor/Type/Rev    MPT Rev  Firmware Rev  IOC
 1.  01/08/00/0        LSI Logic SAS1064E B1     000      00000000     0

Select a device:  [1-1 or 0 to quit] 1

The firmware on this SAS1064E B1 appears broken!
A valid firmware image is required to make this chip operational...

Enter firmware filename: ^C

Unloading MPTFusion kext helped:

sudo kextunload -v /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext
kextunload: unload kext /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext succeeded


power-mac-g5-user-usr:1.70 andrewrandrianasulu$ sudo ./lsiutil -s -w
LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility, Version 1.72, Sep 09, 2014

01/08/00/0: Failed to clear RESET ADAPTER

01/08/00/0 (SAS1064E B1) is in UNKNOWN state, Doorbell is ffffffff

1 MPT Port found

==============================================================================

01/08/00/0        LSI Logic SAS1064E B1    MPT 000   Firmware 00000000   IOC 0


01/08/00/0: Failed to clear RESET ADAPTER
SAS1064E's host SCSI ID is 0

 B___T___L  Type       Vendor   Product          Rev   Negotiated Speed & Width

01/08/00/0: Failed to clear RESET ADAPTER

edit 2:

from System profiler:

SAS Domain 0:

  Vendor:    LSILogic
  Product:    SAS3041E
  Revision:    Firmware 1.9.0.0, Fcode 1.00.40
  Bus:    PCI
  Slot:    SLOT-2
  Initiator Identifier:    63

I think this means that Fcode installed, even if card was branded for HP?

edit 3:

This is PCI-E (Express) card:

LSI,1064E:

  Name:    LSILogic,sas
  Type:    scsi-2
  Driver Installed:    Yes
  Bus:    PCI
  Slot:    SLOT-2
  Vendor ID:    0x1000
  Device ID:    0x0056
  Subsystem Vendor ID:    0x1000
  Subsystem ID:    0x3090
  Revision ID:    0x0002
  Link Width:    x4
  Link Speed:    2.5 GT/s

It worked in Linux (LSiutil 1.72, kernel 6.12.92_ppc64), showing full menu and correct Firmware/MPT revisions.

So ot appear some functions in osx port do not work correctly yet?

 

[Andrew-R]

There is function in lsiutil.c line 31778

getPortInfo(MPT_PORT *port)

it calls

checkOperational() and then getIocFacts()

and only if both successed it goes to define

port->mptVersion and port->fwVersion along with other useful info.

So may be it fails in osx case due to unloaded kext leaving device in strange non-default state? Need to add printfs there, but .. next day, not now.

 

[Andrew-R]

There is very basic MPTSAS1068 emulation in qemu (2.6.0+) so I used FreeDOS 1.4 boot/install disk + lsiutil.exe + dos4g.exe on virtual fat drive to see if it gives me menu at least. It does, even if firmware still at 0000

Using qemu 10.2.1 on Termux/aarch64

qemu-system-i386 -fda 144m/x86BOOT.img -vnc :1 -hdb fat:rw:14/ -boot a -device mptsas1068

But torturing it too hard result in

../hw/scsi/mptsas.c:843: uint32_t mptsas_doorbell_read(MPTSASState *): assertion "s->intr_status & MPI_HIS_DOORBELL_INTERRUPT" failed
Aborted

I am not sure if you can add real rom to it? may be by using

-device mptsas1068,rom=real_rom.rom ?

 

[joevt]

So ot appear some functions in osx port do not work correctly yet?

Do you have my DirectHW.kext and my pciutils installed?
Does sudo lspci work?
Also see https://gist.github.com/joevt/e3cd4ff08aae06279134969c98ca3ab7

Do note that I have done very little testing of lsiutil on Mac OS X because I do not have a LSI PCI card.

 

[Andrew-R]

Do you have my DirectHW.kext and my pciutils installed?

yes, otherwise lsiutils will not compile.

Does sudo lspci work?

yes, thanks (I need to run it as sudo /usr/local/sbin/lspci, because /usr/local/sbin is not in root's $PATH)

Also see https://gist.github.com/joevt/e3cd4ff08aae06279134969c98ca3ab7

Do note that I have done very little testing of lsiutil on Mac OS X because I do not have a LSI PCI card.

You can try qemu route? But Leo is surely not small cat 😉 you need few gigs just for os, I think 20 gb virt. hdd was smaller I used for OSX + Xcode install for both 10.5.8 intel/ppc and 10.6.8 x86-64)

It seems that firmware version /MPT version being zero do not, in itself, prevent full menu from appearing in dos version of lsiutil under qemu with mptsas1068 rom-less device.

 

[Andrew-R]

so get SATA III SSD, default sata-1 motherboard port was not working with it, but LSI card sees disk, formatted and tested in Xbench so far.

Spoiler: images

SCSI Logical Unit @ 0:

  Capacity:    223,57 GB
  SCSI Logical Unit Number:    0
  Model:    MSI S270 240GB
  Revision:    SHFME0.0
  Serial Number:    511251002206004682
  SATA Device:    Yes
  Removable Media:    Yes
  Detachable Drive:    No
  BSD Name:    disk1
  Mac OS 9 Drivers:    No
  Partition Map Type:    APM (Apple Partition Map)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:    Not Supported
  Volumes:
ssd1:
  Capacity:    111,79 GB
  Available:    111,71 GB
  Writable:    Yes
  File System:    Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:    disk1s3
  Mount Point:    /Volumes/ssd1
ssd2:
  Capacity:    111,54 GB
  Available:    111,46 GB
  Writable:    Yes
  File System:    Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:    disk1s5
  Mount Point:    /Volumes/ssd2

 

[Amethyst1]

so get SATA III SSD, default sata-1 motherboard port was not working with it, but LSI card sees disk, formatted and tested in Xbench so far.

It's connecting at 1.5 Gbps. (I just saw your post about it not running properly at 3 Gbps.)

 

[Andrew-R]

It's connecting at 1.5 Gbps. (I just saw your post about it not running properly at 3 Gbps.)

yeah, but so far it seems to work, I even booted 10.6.8 in safe mode off it.

Hopefully this ssd will not die on my too soon.