10.5.1 on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disks

[iero]

Hi u all,

This morning, I tried to install 10.5.1 (with updated AppleNForceATA.kext) on a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) based computer (with two disks), but I cannot see my disks on the graphical disks manager. So, I cannot prepare partitions and select them to install leopard.

When I try to do fdisk -e /dev/disk0, he find me a disk (don't know which one), but if I try to modify and save some commands, he says :

"fdisk: /dev/disk0: Permission denied".

I don't understand why I see a disk and cannot modify it.

An idea ?

iero.

[iero]

I've seen some SAS drivers :

https://www.attotech.com/software/fi...asraid_200.dmg

Is there a way to incorporate dmg contents to my 10.5.1 install dvd ?

How can I extract files from this dmg ?

Any idea ?

iero.

[iero]

And from this page http://www.techmessenger.com/Apple-O...071106002.html it seems that the new kernel includes drivers for some SAS controlers ?

Hum..

[iero]

Update : My controler is a LSI Logic® LSISAS1068E 8-port SAS and it still doesn't work with zeph's 10.5.2 install..

[Ryoken]

iero,

<key>IONameMatch</key>
		<array>
		 <string>ATTO,ExpressSAS_RAID</string>
		 <string>pci117c,2c</string>
		 <string>pci117c,2d</string>
		</array>

Extracted with PACIFIST from ATTO package. I'm not sure that this will work with yours. Anyway, you can try.

[iero]

@ryoken

I've found in ./System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext/Contents/Info.plist :

               <key>AppleLSIFusionSAS</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
                        <string>com.apple.driver.AppleLSIFusionMPT</string>
                        <key>IOClass</key>
                        <string>AppleLSIFusionSAS</string>
                        <key>IONameMatch</key>
                        <array>
                                <string>LSILogic,sas</string>
                                <string>pci1000,50</string>
                                <string>pci1000,56</string>
                                <string>pci1000,58</string>
                        </array>

Here are some infos about this chipset found with a linux livecd. we can deduce the ChisetID : 0x2704

ioc0: ProductID = 0x2704 (LSISAS1068E) FWVersion = 0x01102100 MsgVersion = 0x0105 FirstWhoInit = 0x00 EventState = 0x01 CurrentHostMfaHighAddr = 0x00000000 CurrentSenseBufferHighAddr = 0x00000000 MaxChainDepth = 0x60 frames MinBlockSize = 0x20 bytes RequestFrames @ 0xdfa02800 (Dma @ 0x1fa02800) {CurReqSz=128} x {CurReqDepth=267} = 34176 bytes ^= 0x9000 {MaxReqSz=128} {MaxReqDepth=511} Frames @ 0xdfa00000 (Dma @ 0x1fa00000) {CurRepSz=80} x {CurRepDepth=128} = 10240 bytes ^= 0x2880 {MaxRepSz=0} {MaxRepDepth=511} MaxDevices = 112 MaxBuses = 1 PortNumber = 1 (of 1) WWN = 500605B00026A780

How can I find the value "pci1xxxx" - or do I need to add in the plist file ?

Thanks, iero.

[iero]

From this url http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/FUSION_SAS.html, it seems that the line

<string>pci1000,58</string>

need to work ?

What do you think ?

iero.

[iero]

Just a question. Do I need to add /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext/ to the DVD ?

iero.

[eddie11c]

yes you will need to manually add the kext to the install DVD. There are some basic instructions here
http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc10

[Puttabong]

Added Code & Quote tags, please do so on your own in the future, iero! Thanks.