Supermicro X9DRH-iF / IBM M1015 IT Crossflashed P20 Question

[Radix]

I've looked...and I absolutely fear that I've missed something and Cyberjock is gonna pounce me for not RTFM or using the forum search but I've done both. Here's the layout:

I have a Supermicro X9DRH-iF motherboard (no sata ports used), I have a m1015 flashed to IT mode at P20. I have a BPN-SAS2-826EL1 and a BPN-SAS2-846EL1 providing backplane expansion to 36 sata drives. I have 2x Sun F20 flashes (redundant log and redundant boot each with their own 24Gb slice of each of the cards), and a Sun F40 flash card for L2arc. I'm running the 9.10 Stable release train of FreeNAS.

Problem: I keep getting a warning that "WARNING: Feb. 20, 2017, 4:58 p.m. - Firmware version 109 does not match driver version 21 for /dev/mps1. Please flash controller to P21 IT firmware." I do understand that I don't need to worry about the version 21 driver conflicting with my version P20 firmware (the whole driver update but no firmware update fiasco)...but what on earth has a version 109? I only have the one m1015 in IT mode. Is this one of the backplanes creating this warning? If so why would a backplane expander driver matter since it's direct access to devices anyway or does it in fact matter a lot and I'm thinking about this incorrectly? I know I'm missing some blaring problem, but my eyes can't see it at this point. Some guru throw me a bone on where I should look next pretty please with a cherry on top!

 

[dlavigne]

What's the build version (from System -> Information)?

 

[Radix]

FreeNAS-9.10.2-U1 (86c7ef5)

 

[Ericloewe]

Firmware version 109

Well, that's a new one.

Please file a bug report for this one. I (and the devs, so include it with the bug report) would like to see the output of:
sas2flash -listall

I have 2x Sun F20 flashes (redundant log and redundant boot each with their own 24Gb slice of each of the cards)

As an aside, that's a bad idea. The last thing an SLOG device needs is a competing application. Booting from a cheap SATA SSD is a much saner option.

Edit: Post #10 000! I thought it was 9 999. There goes the shameless self-congratulatory post opportunity.

 

[Radix]

Well, that's a new one.

Please file a bug report for this one. I (and the devs, so include it with the bug report) would like to see the output of:
sas2flash -listall


As an aside, that's a bad idea. The last thing an SLOG device needs is a competing application. Booting from a cheap SATA SSD is a much saner option.

Edit: Post #10 000! I thought it was 9 999. There goes the shameless self-congratulatory post opportunity.

Just to complete the thread with the requested info:

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# sas2flash -listall                                           
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility                                             
Version 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)                                               
Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved                   
                                                                               
        Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2)                             
                                                                               
Num   Ctlr            FW Ver        NVDATA        x86-BIOS         PCI Addr     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------   
                                                                               
0  SAS2008(B2)     20.00.07.00    14.01.00.08    07.39.02.00     00:04:00:00   
                                                                               
        Finished Processing Commands Successfully.                             
        Exiting SAS2Flash. 

 

[Ericloewe]

Well, it's the latest version of the firmware, so something very weird is going on.

Did you file the bug report? If so, please post a link to it, for future reference.

 

[Radix]

Well, it's the latest version of the firmware, so something very weird is going on.

Did you file the bug report? If so, please post a link to it, for future reference.

Per your request: #21464

 

[Radix]

Per your request: #21464

As another aside, Freenas10-Latest nightly as of 2/24/2017 does not show this error. Just rolled to 10 to see if the behavior was consistent.

 

[tim7415]

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but my server hardware is very similar to yours, and I'm wondering if you had seen issues like what I describe in https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...hba-card-for-front-and-rear-backplanes.50780/