Marvell 88SE6320 SAS-Controller not found!

[framling]

Mainboard Asus P6T Deluxe
http://www.asus.de/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=2593&l1=3&l2=179&l3=815&l4=0

Controller on Asus P6T Deluxe with SAS-HDD Fujitsu MBA3073RC 73 GB not found with Jaunty 9.04 Alpha3.
Can't install on SAS-HDD as bootdisk.

See message-file.

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Can you put the line in reference, there is many info.

[eccoh (rastamokshha)]

yes me too problem with this marvell controller
on the same board
impossible to install kubuntu on an sas drive......
got only 1 sas drive and everything i tried for install it on the sas drive no working.
i think it's problem with Marvell 88SE6320 sas controller

don't know but hope it will be soon resolved

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

sounds like missing/non-existent driver

[eccoh (rastamokshha)]

On Fedora 11 alpha it's ok
the drive is recognized and installing on it is ok

yes i think also of a missing driver....

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

This device should be handled by the mvsas kernel module, which is present in the Ubuntu kernels. However, it looks like a similar problem occurs with other distributions :

1. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450302
2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474482

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Please include the information requested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection as separate attachments.

[eccoh (rastamokshha)]

oki
thks for the link ;)

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Looking at the "lspci" output, I see that there is a 88SE6121 disk controller, but no 88SE6320. If necessary, you can read more about enabling SATA support for this device at http://wiki.debian.org/pata_marvell.

However, the 88SE6320 simply does not show up neither the "dmesg" or the "lspci" outputs, so there is no chance the kernel can attempt to load a driver for it. Can you verify that it is at least enabled in the BIOS?

[eccoh (rastamokshha)]

sorry i forgot that i had no disk connected on the sas port
and the controller set to disable

i put dmesg and lspci again with the disk

[eccoh (rastamokshha)]

again no working in the jaunty beta....

hope it will be ok in the final release
i can't use it for the moment so i will wait

[dschaefer79 (dschaefer79)]

I will buy such a board soon, Did anybody try it again with jaunty rc ?

Thanks,

Dominique

[SomeMan (alexeyn-skvortsov)]

Marvell SAS RAID for ASUS P6T still not supported in jaunty rc.
Although the bug seems fixed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/352336

[dschaefer79 (dschaefer79)]

Is it working on jaunty final release ? I suppose not because when I launch the live cd the module mvsas doesn't exist.

[eccoh (rastamokshha)]

no it's not working yet.....
you can see the sas controller and ports in powertweak

but not recognized under fdisk....

[dschaefer79 (dschaefer79)]

This is for ubuntu 9.04 x64

I customized the live cd to include mvsas at boot.

I found on internet at this adress http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2007/08/howto-customize-your-own-ubuntu-live-cd.html a script that I modified to made a desktop cd install.

Here the script and mvsas.ko. Steps to create the custom desktop cd.

1. you must download ubuntu 9.04 desktop cd x64 save it to /root
2. download the custom-install script save it to /root
3. download mvsas.ko save it to root
4. lauch terminal as root
4. chmod a+x /root/custom-install
5. cd /root
6. ./custom-install
7. Extract iso contents = y
8. Install patch for Marvell SAS = y
9. Recompile iso = y
10. You will in /root Ubuntu-9.04-custom-amd.iso
11. Write it to a cd
12. Launch the cd with try ubuntu not install ubuntu
13. When the cd finished to boot Launch Terminal
14. su root
15. depmod -a
16. modprobe mvsas
17. You can install install Ubuntu on sas controller

The next step would be to replace the installation of the default kernel by a custom kernel with support for mvsas. but I don't know how. Anybody an idea where are the package Ubuntu desktop cd install on the desktop cd ?

I want also to avoid depmod -a step how can I launch depmod in a chroot environment ? Anybody an idea ? Thanks

Enjoy....

[dschaefer79 (dschaefer79)]

Here mvsas.ko

[dschaefer79 (dschaefer79)]

Here mvsas.ko

[SomeMan (alexeyn-skvortsov)]

> The next step would be to replace the installation of the default kernel by a custom kernel with support for mvsas.
> but I don't know how. Anybody an idea where are the package Ubuntu desktop cd install on the desktop cd ?

just compile kernel with patch, and build linux image package,
then follow instructions in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
"Advanced Customizations" section describes how to replace kernel.
Also you can install new linux-image package when you chroot to edit directory.

I have done this and got live-CD with SAS support.

[vincefn (vincent-favre-nicolin)]

  Kernel 2.6.28-12 (which is now in jaunty's proposed-updates) adds support for mvsas:

uname -a
Linux gre019099 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:31:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 find /lib/modules/ -iname *mvsas*
/lib/modules/2.6.28-12-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/mvsas.ko

  Note that I've not tried *booting* using sas - I'm just using that sas disk for /home

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/352336

    Vincent

[azoranic (azoranic)]

Great job dschaefer79! It seems that Jaunty now recognizes my SAS drive(s) but as separate drives, although they have been striped through RAID 0 Configuration. Actually only one is reported to be NTFS (since I'm running XP x64 already on it) the other one is unknown probably since only the first one carries NTFS info (either that or the MBR) and Ubuntu recognizes it.

To have Ubuntu treat both HDDs as one I had to do the following within Live CD:

sudo apt-get install dmraid
sudo dmraid -ay
sudo mount -a

Now instead of seeing two 147 SAS drives, Ubuntu reports a single 294.0 GB (Linux device-mapper (striped)) drive, BUT when installing ubuntu, installation fails right after installing GRUB at 94% saying "ubiquity closed unexpectedly"!!!

Anybody help????

[Alvin (alvind)]

Could this be nominated for Karmic? Karmic alpha 5 asks to activate SATA RAID, but does not see the disks.

[tn96web (thenet1996)]

i hope for a solution with 9.10!

[dschaefer79 (dschaefer79)]

It's working in 9.10 beta

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Karmic Koala.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[tn96web (thenet1996)]

yes, i need a BugFix for 8.04.3-server, which additional informations did you need.