SAS9220-8i no disks

[christian99x]

My 9220-8i in my Server (Ubuntu 16.04) does not show any HDD

I successfully flashed V20 9211-it FW (which I can confirm during boot up) and the

dmesg shows the following messages:

1.475482] mpt2sas_cm0: MSI-X vectors supported: 1, no of cores: 4, max_msix_vectors: -1
[ 1.475997] mpt2sas0-msix0: PCI-MSI-X enabled: IRQ 33
[ 1.476130] mpt2sas_cm0: iomem(0x00000000c89c0000), mapped(0xffffba2a80b14000), size(16384)
[ 1.476480] mpt2sas_cm0: ioport(0x000000000000c800), size(256)
[ 1.480819] mpt2sas_cm0: sending message unit reset !!
[ 1.482566] mpt2sas_cm0: message unit reset: SUCCESS
[ 1.489587] mpt2sas_cm0: Allocated physical memory: size(5054 kB)
[ 1.489837] mpt2sas_cm0: Current Controller Queue Depth(3364),Max Controller Queue Depth(3432)
[ 1.490223] mpt2sas_cm0: Scatter Gather Elements per IO(128)
[ 1.496759] firewire_ohci 0000:01:03.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x2
[ 1.500637] mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.39.02.00)
[ 1.503202] mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=(
[ 1.503203] Initiator
[ 1.503584] ,Target
[ 1.503629] ),
[ 1.503674] Capabilities=(
[ 1.503720] TLR
[ 1.503780] ,EEDP
[ 1.504041] ,Snapshot Buffer
[ 1.505322] ,Diag Trace Buffer
[ 1.506896] ,Task Set Full
[ 1.508267] ,NCQ
[ 1.508788] )
[ 1.512173] scsi host4: Fusion MPT SAS Host
[ 1.514486] mpt2sas_cm0: sending port enable !!
[ 1.519645] mpt2sas_cm0: host_add: handle(0x0001), sas_addr(0x500605b00650d600), phys(8)
[ 1.532035] mpt2sas_cm0: port enable: SUCCESS​

If I run sas2ircu I can see all relevant details about the card.

If I run sas2flsh -listall (btw: where can I find the linux compatible version??) I can again see my card and no errors

If I run the lsiutil I receive "0 MTP Ports found"

If I run mpt-status I receive "ioctl: No such device" , I googled that and I found the following blog entry:

LINUX HELP ALL: Fix Error: open /dev/mptctl: No such device. Make sure mptctl is loaded into the kernel

/dev/mptctl exists and the modules mptctl, mptbase are loaded, mod_scsi is not available

I have two OCR cables (guess these are the right ones) and both are not working - both brandnew, so I doubt BOTH of them a broken and it's a cable issue.

Another issue, which I don't know if it's connected to that: I can not access the bios of the controller. I flashed MPT2BIOS V7.39. If I try to boot into the bios, I get:

"Avago Config Utility will load following initialisation!"
"Avago Boot ROM successfully installed"

...and the screen clears and I see only a blinking cursor!

Any help is appreciated - thanks!

 

[j_h_o]

The cables are directional. Can you link us to which cables you have?

Are you sure you have the SFF-8087 --> SATA breakout cable? Or do you have the reverse breakout cables?

 

[christian99x]

I have exactly this one (according to the label on the bag):

InLine® SAS Cable Mini SAS SFF8087 to 4x SATA direct OCR 1m

...it's OCR, I read "for connecting drives or backplanes to a host-controller with 4 SATA connector" - that's what I thought is the right one, is it not?

 

[christian99x]

...it's OCR, I read "for connecting drives or backplanes to a host-controller with 4 SATA connector" - that's what I thought is the right one, is it not?

hmmm, after reading some more, I guess OCR is NOT what I need, OCF is what I need - can this somebody confirm, please!

 

[vanfawx]

You'll want OCF (Forward) to go from a HBA to SATA drives.
OCR (Reverse) is to go from SATA ports on a motherboard to a backplane.

 

[christian99x]

You'll want OCF (Forward) to go from a HBA to SATA drives.
OCR (Reverse) is to go from SATA ports on a motherboard to a backplane.

Allright - thanks for the clarification!