If your raid card has the option, you could try putting it into "passthrough" or IT-mode then restart and see if the system can see the expander. If this doesn't work, you might need to find a cheap LSI-type card that has IT-mode firmware. I know you would be able to see the expander with that type of card. I've never tried connecting one of my expanders to a raid card like Adaptec or Areca, just LSI.
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Ok, thank you, I will see if I can do that, hope I dont have to get a lsi card for this, that seems like a waste, lol, i already have two raid cards that I am currently not using but not lsi.
I'm trying to understand this card a bit more. It's running firmware 2.10 from what i can tell.
I have an LSI that was crossflashed to 9211-8i IT mode firmware. 2 sff-8087 ports. This is inside a Dell R710 chassis, with 2x backplanes in the front each with 4x drive bays.
I also have an LSI SAS6160 switch, and connected to it are 2x sans digital MS8x6+ chassis' with 8 drives each, and 1x pc-pitstop SASE8 w/ 8x Crucial SSD's.
I've tried connecting the LSI controller to the HP Expander internally on ports 8c or 9c, and then using the internal ports on the hp expander to connect to my internal backplanes in the R710, and the external connector (1c) to my SAS6160. Unfortunately, none of the drives attached to the switch end up being detected by the controller. It can only see the backplane connected drives internally and nothing on the sas6160 or subsequently attached enclosures.
Am I not using this correctly in some way?
I have an LSI that was crossflashed to 9211-8i IT mode firmware. 2 sff-8087 ports. This is inside a Dell R710 chassis, with 2x backplanes in the front each with 4x drive bays.
I also have an LSI SAS6160 switch, and connected to it are 2x sans digital MS8x6+ chassis' with 8 drives each, and 1x pc-pitstop SASE8 w/ 8x Crucial SSD's.
I've tried connecting the LSI controller to the HP Expander internally on ports 8c or 9c, and then using the internal ports on the hp expander to connect to my internal backplanes in the R710, and the external connector (1c) to my SAS6160. Unfortunately, none of the drives attached to the switch end up being detected by the controller. It can only see the backplane connected drives internally and nothing on the sas6160 or subsequently attached enclosures.
Am I not using this correctly in some way?
Anyone know if 2 of these work with the raid on board cards like 9260/80’s? I would like to try and get all of my disks on one card. Right now 52 sas 2.5 drives is split over 3 cards.This will make for larger pool and cause less wasted drives in the raid pool covering the redundancy. If this works I will gain about 2 Tb free just by changing over. I’m not super concerned about having to use the onboard raid of the 9260/80’s to perform the management it works fine for me.
Hello, I was wondering if anyone here uses the HP expander with the Areca cards?
I have a Areca ARC-1880IX-20 FW1.56 and HP SAS EXP Card FW2.10, I am wondering if there are any known issues?
I have a weird issue on the areca card where the h/w monitor is showing the wrong voltages?
I have a Areca ARC-1880IX-20 FW1.56 and HP SAS EXP Card FW2.10, I am wondering if there are any known issues?
I have a weird issue on the areca card where the h/w monitor is showing the wrong voltages?
Hello,
Would anyone be able to tell me what the 6 led lights do on the hp expander?
My card is not working and drives not recognized. The 1st 3 lights are solid green.
Any ideas?
Thank you
Bill
Would anyone be able to tell me what the 6 led lights do on the hp expander?
My card is not working and drives not recognized. The 1st 3 lights are solid green.
Any ideas?
Thank you
Bill
Old thread I know, I was looking to pick up one of these HP expanders but worried about being able to update the firmware since the seller does not list the firmware version.
Is there a way to do it without an HP HBA?
If I do need an HP HBA, does the H240 work? I have been considering grabbing one anyways just to have a spare HBA.
Is there a way to do it without an HP HBA?
If I do need an HP HBA, does the H240 work? I have been considering grabbing one anyways just to have a spare HBA.
Cool, is there a write up on this method? Still quite new to linux so I have no clue what that command is lol.
OT: This does beg the question, I still need a spare HBA with how prices are going up. LSI 8I like my others for $30-40 or H240 for $20?
Hello,
Does anyone know what the led lights on the hp expander are for? is there documentation somewhere?
right now I can only get R1 and R2 to light up
Does anyone know what the led lights on the hp expander are for? is there documentation somewhere?
right now I can only get R1 and R2 to light up
I'm trying to flash my card which currently has firmware 1.52, I followed the instructions mentioned in this thread and here, but am getting "No such file or directory" error
I'm a complete Linux novice, but I have the PUF21000.bin in the tmp folder, I notice another tmp folder within that so have also copied the PUF21000.bin file into that folder as well, but still no joy.
Any idea's please?
I'm a complete Linux novice, but I have the PUF21000.bin in the tmp folder, I notice another tmp folder within that so have also copied the PUF21000.bin file into that folder as well, but still no joy.
Any idea's please?
You appearing to be tacking ".fw" onto your file name while using the sg_write-buffer command.
--in=<filename> You are using "PUF21000.bin.fw"
your directory shows the filename as "PUF21000.bin"
try removing the ".fw"
Thanks, very odd, I was copy and pasting and only changing the sg1 to sg0 on the end, wonder whether I somehow typed that in to the reply on here, or whether it really was there.
I've shut the system down, so I'll try again tomorrow night.
I've shut the system down, so I'll try again tomorrow night.
I need to Google how to do that, but would it still be there, it's powered off?
PS. Its a full install rather than a live CD
PS. Its a full install rather than a live CD
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right sorry. "linux novice"
Once you've either sudo'ed to root or logged in as root, type:
"history" at the command prompt. without the quotes.
if you want to search for things in the history you'd type something like "history | grep -i sg_write" at the command prompt. without the quotes.
bash normally tracks the history of exexcuted commands. you can "man history" at the command prompt to find out more.
the bash history is typically stored in a hidden file within your login directory. You can type "ls -la" after you login and before you cd to any other directory to see what's there.
Thanks, I must of clicked in the forum post and typed "fw" as its not in the history, which is below complete with novice mistakes.
I and here I run through the procedure again, and get "No such file or directory" even though the file is there. Any ideas please?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Code:
1 lsscsi -g | grep HP
2 apt install lsscsi
3 lsscsi -g | grep HP
4 lsscsi -g | grep HP (notate /dev/sg*0
5 cls
6 lsscsi -g | grep HP
7 cd /tmp
8 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
9 apt install curl
10 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
11 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
12 dpkg -i libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
13 dpkg -i sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
14 chmod +x CP019687.scexe
15 chmod +x CP019687.scexe
16 dir
17 chmod +x CP022989.scexe
18 ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp
19 mv /tmp/tmp/PUF21000.bin /tmp
20 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
21 sg_write_buffer --mode=0x7 --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
22 dir
23 sg_write_buffer
24 curl -O http://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-linux-fw-array/p6670438/v96061/CP022989.scexe
25 dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install libstdc++6:i386
26 mkdir tmp && chmod +x CP022989.scexe && ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp && mv tmp/PUF21000.bin . && rm -r tmp/
27 dir
28 exit
29 rmdir /tmp
30 cd /tmp
31 cp PUF21000.bin /tmp
32 cp PUF21000.bin /tmp/tmp
33 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
34 sg
35 sg_
36 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb && curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb && dpkg -i *_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
37 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
38 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=/tmp/PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
39 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin.fw /dev/sg0
40 sg_write_buffer --mode=0x7 --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin.fw /dev/sg0
41 dir
42 sg_write_buffer --mode=0x7 --bpw=4096 --in=/tmp/PUF21000.bin.fw /dev/sg0
43 mkdir tmp && chmod +x CP022989.scexe && ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp && mv tmp/PUF21000.bin . && rm -r tmp/
44 rmdir /tmp
45 rmdir -r /tmp
46 rmdir -r /tmp
47 rm -r /tmp
48 mkdir tmp && chmod +x CP022989.scexe && ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp && mv tmp/PUF21000.bin . && rm -r tmp/
49 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb && curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb && dpkg -i *_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
50 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
51 apt-get install lsscsi
52 apt --fix-broken install
53 cd tmp
54 cd /tmp
55 md /tmp
56 lsscsi -g | grep HP
57 mkdir /tmp
58 cd /tmp
59 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
60 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
61 dpkg -i libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
62 dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install libstdc++6:i386
63 apt --fix-broken install
64 dpkg -i libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
65 dpkg -i sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
66 curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb && curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb && dpkg -i *_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
67 curl -O http://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-linux-fw-array/p6670438/v96061/CP022989.scexe
68 mkdir tmp && chmod +x CP022989.scexe && ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp && mv tmp/PUF21000.bin . && rm -r tmp/
69 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg1
70 dir
71 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=/PUF21000.bin /dev/sg1
72 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=/PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
73 sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Code:
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# lsscsi -g | grep HP
[0:0:0:0] enclosu HP HP SAS EXP Card 1.52 - /dev/sg0
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install libstdc++6:i386
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
libgpod-common : Depends: libsgutils2-2 (>= 1.27) but it is not going to be installed
libsgutils2-2:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.7) but it is not going to be installed
libstdc++6:i386 : Depends: gcc-10-base:i386 (= 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.23) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgcc-s1:i386 (>= 4.2) but it is not going to be installed
sg3-utils:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.7) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb &&
>
> curl -O http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb &&
>
> dpkg -i *_1.39-0.1_i386.deb
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 67170 100 67170 0 0 323k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 321k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 564k 100 564k 0 0 1099k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1099k
(Reading database ... 234720 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libsgutils2-2:i386 (1.39-0.1) over (1.39-0.1) ...
Preparing to unpack sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking sg3-utils:i386 (1.39-0.1) over (1.39-0.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsgutils2-2:i386:
libsgutils2-2:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.7).
dpkg: error processing package libsgutils2-2:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sg3-utils:i386:
sg3-utils:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.7).
sg3-utils:i386 depends on libsgutils2-2 (>= 1.39); however:
Package libsgutils2-2:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package sg3-utils:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libsgutils2-2:i386
sg3-utils:i386
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# curl -O http://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-linux-fw-array/p6670438/v96061/CP022989.scexe
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2990k 100 2990k 0 0 213k 0 0:00:14 0:00:14 --:--:-- 277k
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# mkdir tmp && chmod +x CP022989.scexe && ./CP022989.scexe --unpack=tmp && mv tmp/PUF21000.bin . && rm -r tmp/
ccissflash
Config.xml
CP022989.xml
hpsetup
libcpqimgr.so
PUF21000.bin
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=PUF21000.bin /dev/sg0
bash: /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer: No such file or directory
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# dir
Desktop Downloads Music Public sg3-utils_1.39-0.1_i386.deb Templates Videos
CP022989.scexe Documents libsgutils2-2_1.39-0.1_i386.deb Pictures PUF21000.bin snap thinclient_drives
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski#
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You have some funk going on for sure.
bash is reporting diffculty with sg_write_buffer...
I'd expect sg_write_buffer to report an issue with the file.
on freebsd (sorry linux access for an appropriate test system is curtailed at the moment) I get the following:
can you provide the output for the following commands:
which sg_write_buffer
ls -la /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer
/usr/bin/sg_write_buffer --version
/usr/bin/sg_write_buffer -h
bash is reporting diffculty with sg_write_buffer...
I'd expect sg_write_buffer to report an issue with the file.
on freebsd (sorry linux access for an appropriate test system is curtailed at the moment) I get the following:
Code:
% sudo sg_write_buffer --mode=dmc_offs_defer --bpw=4096 --in=foobar.fw /dev/da0
sg_write_buffer: could not open foobar.fw for reading: No such file or directorywhich sg_write_buffer
ls -la /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer
/usr/bin/sg_write_buffer --version
/usr/bin/sg_write_buffer -h
Code:
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# which sg_write_buffer
/usr/bin/sg_write_buffer
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# ls -la /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14224 Jun 12 2014 /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer --version
bash: /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer: No such file or directory
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski# /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer -h
bash: /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer: No such file or directory
root@Rons-Precision-Tower-5810:/home/Ronski#bash: /usr/bin/sg_write_buffer: No such file or directory
bash can't find your sg_write_buffer or the file itself is borked.
your issue is not with the firmware file.
You might try autocompleting the sg_write_buffer command if you are typing it out or cutting and pasting it.
at the prompt start by typing sg_write and hit tab to see if it autocompltes.
somehow you might have a non printable character in the file name. how that happened though would be beyond my ken.