MD3000 on Debian.

[Fábio Catunda]

Hi list,

This is my first message to the list, please let me know if some 
information is missing to help solve the problem.

We have a MD3000 storage and we are trying to make it work with a PE1950 
server with Debian Etch.

During the boot time the controller - SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic 
/ Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 01) - shows the MD3000 
virtual disk and also shows the virtual disk capacity - 1.6TB, so I 
imagine that the storage is correctly configured.

I already created the host on the storage and give it permission to 
access the virtual disk (Host-to-virtual-disk-mapping).

On the host side I can see the controller with
# omreport storage controller
ID                                : 1
Status                            : Ok
Name                              : SAS 5/E
Slot ID                           : PCI Slot 2
State                             : Ready
Firmware Version                  : 00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00
Minimum Required Firmware Version : Not Applicable
Driver Version                    : 3.04.01
Minimum Required Driver Version   : Not Applicable
Number of Connectors              : 2
Rebuild Rate                      : Not Applicable
BGI Rate                          : Not Applicable
Check Consistency Rate            : Not Applicable
Reconstruct Rate                  : Not Applicable
Alarm State                       : Not Applicable
Cluster Mode                      : Not Applicable
SCSI Initiator ID                 : Not Applicable
Cache Memory Size                 : Not Applicable
Patrol Read Mode                  : Not Applicable
Patrol Read State                 : Not Applicable
Patrol Read Rate                  : Not Applicable
Patrol Read Iterations            : Not Applicable

WIth lsiutil I have:
#lsiutil
 1.  /proc/mpt/ioc0    LSI Logic SAS1068E B3     105      00192f00     0
 2.  /proc/mpt/ioc1    LSI Logic SAS1068 B0      105      000a3300     0

option 2 chosen, option 42 chosen shows:
/proc/mpt/ioc1 is SCSI host 1

 B___T___L  Type       Operating System Device Name
 0   0   0  Disk       /dev/sdb    [1:0:0:0]
 0   0  31  Disk       /dev/sdc    [1:0:0:31]

And finally I try to cfdisk /dev/sdb and I get:
FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive

And dmesg shows me:
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

I'm fighting against this error for a week now and I'm completely out of 
ideas.  I tried to install LSI drivers from their site, but I couldn't 
find any instructions to compile the source and RPM fails to install.

Well, I don't know what else I can do, what should I install and etc, if 
somebody can help me I'll be glad.

Thanks a lot,

Fabio Catunda.