Promise Supertrak EX16350 controller compatibility and driver

[NAScake]

Howdy all,

I have a Promise EX16350 controller which seems to be working fine, bios is seeing all the drives. But I'm guessing it's driver is not part of the stock build like the highpoints. Is it just a matter of loaded its FreeBSD driver or is it not a known working card for FN? I'm a FreeBSD newb so any direction is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

~NC

 

[dexterboy1106]

Driver issue

I have the SupeTrak EX8350 and have tried a couple of different things to get it to work but no luck. I installed ubuntu server 12.04 and it recognized the card with no hassle so that means it can work in a Linux environment. So it she be able to work with freenas. If anybody knows how to get this working please chime in.

 

[ProtoSD]

I have the SupeTrak EX8350 and have tried a couple of different things to get it to work but no luck. I installed ubuntu server 12.04 and it recognized the card with no hassle so that means it can work in a Linux environment. So it she be able to work with freenas. If anybody knows how to get this working please chime in.

Linux and Unix are not the same, very different. UNIX is like the great-great-great-great grandfather of Linux. Just because it works on Linux doesn't mean it works on Unix (FreeNAS/FreeBSD).

You can try a FreeBSD 8.2/8.3 boot CD/DVD and if it works with that, THEN it's possible to make it work with FreeNAS.

 

[dexterboy1106]

No Love

Just installed FreeNAS-8.2.0-RC1-x64 (r11876)
No luck with the hdd showing up I found freebsd driver on a website but not sure if they'll work

 

[ProtoSD]

Don't mess with trying to find a driver, just find a FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 live boot CD or DVD, boot up FreeBSD, and see if your controller works. Drivers don't work the same on FreeBSD as Linux. If you can get it to work with one of those specific versions of FreeBSD, then we can figure out the next step.

 

[TheSmoker]

Any luck with the Promise controller NAScake? I have the same controller laying around and I figured that it would be a great SATA port provider for FreeNAS. :)

LE: After looking at the hardware release notes for FreeBSD 8.3 I saw the following:

Code:

The mvs(4) driver supports the following controllers:

Gen-I (SATA 1.5Gbps):
•88SX5040
•88SX5041
•88SX5080
•88SX5081
Gen-II (SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP):
•88SX6040
•88SX6041 (including Adaptec 1420SA)
•88SX6080
•88SX6081

Gen-IIe (SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP with FBS):
•88SX6042
•88SX7042 (including Adaptec 1430SA)
•88F5182 SoC
•88F6281 SoC
•MV78100 SoC

Promise SuperTrak EX16350 has two Marvell chips branded: 88SX6081.
From my past experience with an Adaptec 1430SA (Marvell 88SX7042) that board works with FreeNAS/FreeBSD versions since version 8.0. The disks are visible if only left unconfigured (no RAID)/JBOD. I will try and come back with an update later on.

 

[TheSmoker]

It seems that with no hdds connected to it it's not being detected by FreeBSD/FreeNAS:

Code:

Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5 #2 r244158M: Wed Dec 12 10:04:42 PST 2012
    root@build.ixsystems.com:/home/jpaetzel/8.3.0/os-base/amd64/usr/home/jpaetzel/8.3.0/FreeBSD/src/sys/FREENAS.amd64 amd64
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics    (3593.48-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x610f01  Family = 15  Model = 10  Stepping = 1
  Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
  Features2=0x3698320b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,FMA,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,AVX,F16C>
  AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1ebbfff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,<b17>,NodeId,TBM,Topology,<b23>,<b24>>
  TSC: P-state invariant
real memory  = 34359738368 (32768 MB)
avail memory = 32563650560 (31055 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <ALASKA A M I>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 16
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 17
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 18
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 19
WARNING: VIMAGE (virtualized network stack) is a highly experimental feature.
ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length: 0x0000000000000000/0x1 (20101013/tbfadt-655)
ioapic0 <Version 2.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
hpt27xx: RocketRAID 27xx controller driver v1.0 (Dec 12 2012 10:04:31)
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
aesni0: <AES-CBC,AES-XTS> on motherboard
acpi0: <ALASKA A M I> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfeb00000-0xfeb3ffff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci0
pci0: <multimedia, HDA> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci1
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
pci2: <mass storage, RAID> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
pcib3: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci1
pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci0
pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
ahci0: <AHCI SATA controller> port 0xe040-0xe047,0xe030-0xe033,0xe020-0xe027,0xe010-0xe013,0xe000-0xe00f mem 0xfe910000-0xfe9107ff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4
ahci0: [ITHREAD]
ahci0: AHCI v1.20 with 8 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported
ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0
ahcich0: [ITHREAD]
ahcich1: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci0
ahcich1: [ITHREAD]
ahcich2: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci0
ahcich2: [ITHREAD]
ahcich3: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci0
ahcich3: [ITHREAD]
ahcich4: <AHCI channel> at channel 4 on ahci0
ahcich4: [ITHREAD]
ahcich5: <AHCI channel> at channel 5 on ahci0
ahcich5: [ITHREAD]
ahcich6: <AHCI channel> at channel 6 on ahci0
ahcich6: [ITHREAD]
ahcich7: <AHCI channel> at channel 7 on ahci0
ahcich7: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 16.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 16.1 (no driver attached)
ahci1: <AHCI SATA controller> port 0xf140-0xf147,0xf130-0xf133,0xf120-0xf127,0xf110-0xf113,0xf100-0xf10f mem 0xfeb4d000-0xfeb4d7ff irq 19 at device 17.0 on pci0
ahci1: [ITHREAD]
ahci1: AHCI v1.30 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported
ahcich8: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci1
ahcich8: [ITHREAD]
ahcich9: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci1
ahcich9: [ITHREAD]
ahcich10: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci1
ahcich10: [ITHREAD]
ahcich11: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci1
ahcich11: [ITHREAD]
ahcich12: <AHCI channel> at channel 4 on ahci1
ahcich12: [ITHREAD]
ahcich13: <AHCI channel> at channel 5 on ahci1
ahcich13: [ITHREAD]
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfeb4c000-0xfeb4cfff irq 18 at device 18.0 on pci0
ohci0: [ITHREAD]
usbus0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfeb4b000-0xfeb4b0ff irq 17 at device 18.2 on pci0
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfeb4a000-0xfeb4afff irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0
ohci1: [ITHREAD]
usbus2: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
ehci1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfeb49000-0xfeb490ff irq 17 at device 19.2 on pci0
ehci1: [ITHREAD]
usbus3: EHCI version 1.0
usbus3: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci1
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 20.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.3 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 20.4 on pci0
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
ohci2: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfeb48000-0xfeb48fff irq 18 at device 20.5 on pci0
ohci2: [ITHREAD]
usbus4: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci2
pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 21.0 on pci0
pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.2> port 0xd000-0xd01f mem 0xfe8c0000-0xfe8dffff,0xfe800000-0xfe87ffff,0xfe8e0000-0xfe8e3fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci6
em0: Using MSIX interrupts with 3 vectors
em0: [ITHREAD]
em0: [ITHREAD]
em0: [ITHREAD]
em0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xd0000-0xd07ff,0xd0800-0xd37ff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
hwpstate0: <Cool`n'Quiet 2.0> on cpu0
acpi_throttle1: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu1
acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT
device_attach: acpi_throttle1 attach returned 6
acpi_throttle2: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu2
acpi_throttle2: failed to attach P_CNT
device_attach: acpi_throttle2 attach returned 6
acpi_throttle3: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu3
acpi_throttle3: failed to attach P_CNT
device_attach: acpi_throttle3 attach returned 6
fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
hpt27xx: no controller detected.
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus3: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
usbus4: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
ugen0.1: <AMD> at usbus0
uhub0: <AMD OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen1.1: <AMD> at usbus1
uhub1: <AMD EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
ugen2.1: <AMD> at usbus2
uhub2: <AMD OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
ugen3.1: <AMD> at usbus3
uhub3: <AMD EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus3
ugen4.1: <AMD> at usbus4
uhub4: <AMD OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4
uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub0: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
uhub2: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
uhub1: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
uhub3: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
ugen1.2: <vendor 0x0409> at usbus1
uhub5: <vendor 0x0409 product 0x005a, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on usbus1
uhub5: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
ugen1.3: <vendor 0x1a40> at usbus1
uhub6: <vendor 0x1a40 USB 2.0 Hub MTT, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3> on usbus1
uhub6: 4 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ugen1.4: <Mad Catz> at usbus1
ukbd0: <Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E.7 Keys> on usbus1
kbd2 at ukbd0
ukbd1: <Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E.7 Numpad> on usbus1
kbd3 at ukbd1
uhid0: <Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E.7 Keyboard> on usbus1
ugen1.5: <Saitek> at usbus1
uhid1: <Saitek Cyborg Rumble Pad - PCXbox 360, rev 2.00/4.20, addr 5> on usbus1
ugen1.6: <Saitek> at usbus1
ums0: <Saitek Cyborg R.A.T.7 Mouse, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.15, addr 6> on usbus1
ums0: 13 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0
ugen1.7: <ATEN> at usbus1
ukbd2: <KB> on usbus1
kbd4 at ukbd2
ums1: <ATEN CS1794, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 7> on usbus1
ums1: 5 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0
ugen1.8: <Corsair> at usbus1
umass0: <Corsair Voyager, class 0/0, rev 2.00/11.00, addr 8> on usbus1
ugen0.2: <Cypress Semiconductor> at usbus0
ahcich7: Poll timeout on slot 0 port 0
ahcich7: is 00000000 cs 00000001 ss 00000000 rs 00000001 tfd 50 serr 00000000 cmd 10000006
ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <OCZ-NOCTI 2.25> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: Command Queueing enabled
ada0: 57241MB (117231408 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada1 at ahcich8 bus 0 scbus8 target 0 lun 0
ada1: <WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada1: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada1: Command Queueing enabled
ada1: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada2 at ahcich9 bus 0 scbus9 target 0 lun 0
ada2: <WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada2: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada2: Command Queueing enabled
ada2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada3 at ahcich10 bus 0 scbus10 target 0 lun 0
ada3: <WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada3: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada3: Command Queueing enabled
ada3: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada4 at ahcich11 bus 0 scbus11 target 0 lun 0
ada4: <WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada4: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada4: Command Queueing enabled
ada4: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada5 at ahcich12 bus 0 scbus12 target 0 lun 0
ada5: <WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada5: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada5: Command Queueing enabled
ada5: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada6 at ahcich13 bus 0 scbus13 target 0 lun 0
ada6: <WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada6: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada6: Command Queueing enabled
ada6: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus14 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Corsair Voyager 1100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!

da0: 3824MB (7831552 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 487C)
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
GEOM: da0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s).
GEOM: da0s2: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s).
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a
ZFS filesystem version 5
ZFS storage pool version 28

Going to search for some spare drives...

 

[TheSmoker]

Card not being detected, driver not loaded. Probably PCI_ID has to be added to sources so that the OS will identify the card and properly load the module ...

Code:

pci2: <mass storage, RAID> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)

Code:

pcib2@pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x03708086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01