Product

The LSI53C1030 (also known as LSI Logic MPT Fusion) is the SCSI chipset on the motherboard of Dell PowerEdge 1600 SC (which is a ServerWorks GC). It's an Ultra320 SCSI Controller.

Driver

The base kinux kernel has support for this SCSI controller in the driver modules "mptscsih" and "mptbase".

Specification

The LSI53C1030 on the motherboard of the Dell PowerEdge 1600 SC has only one SCSI channel connector, and provides no external SCSI connection, so it's suitable mainly for use with drives mounted in the six internal drive slots.

Developer specification

How to write a driver

Model information

Installation

In SuSE 9.0, add "mptscsih" to INITRD_MODULES in your /etc/sysconfig/kernel file, something like this:

INITRD_MODULES="scsi_mod sd_mod mptscsih aic7xxx reiserfs"

Then rebuild your initial ramdisk using:

mkinitrd

Distro here

SuSE 9.0

Current support

Driver is accepted in base linux kernel. Also known to work well in Fedora Core 2.

Own experience

I've only used it with four SCA LVD SCSI drives that can run at Ultra160 speed, all with SCA-to-68-pin converter boards, which causes intermittent wonky-connection problems but seems to work for the most part, e.g:

Fusion MPT base driver 2.05.05+
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
mptbase: 1 MPT adapter found, 1 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.05+
scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01030a00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=255, IRQ=29
blk: queue f1b9ce18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: ZJCS      Model: ZJCS2-73GB        Rev: S5BN
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue f1b9cc18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: ZJCS      Model: ZJCS2-36GB        Rev: S5BS
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue f1b9ca18, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: ZJCS      Model: ZJCS2-36GB        Rev: S5BS
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue f1b9c818, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
  Vendor: ZJCS      Model: ZJCS2-36GB        Rev: S5BS
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue f1b9c618, I/O limit 4294967295Mb (mask 0xffffffffffffffff)
mptscsih: ioc0: scsi0: Id=11 Lun=0: Queue depth=7
mptscsih: ioc0: scsi0: Id=12 Lun=0: Queue depth=31
mptscsih: ioc0: scsi0: Id=13 Lun=0: Queue depth=7
mptscsih: ioc0: scsi0: Id=14 Lun=0: Queue depth=7
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 12, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 13, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 14, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 143374805 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
 sda: sda1 < sda5 >
SCSI device sdb: 71687340 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB)
 sdb: sdb3 sdb7
SCSI device sdc: 71687340 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB)
 sdc: sdc3 sdc7
SCSI device sdd: 71687340 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB)
 sdd: sdd3 sdd7

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-- PeterKnaggs - 14 Jun 2005
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