mfituil exploration

When I couldn’t see any tape library associated with my SAS card, I decided to play with mifutil in case that provides any useful information.

# mfiutil -u 0 show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: PERC 6/E Adapter
   Serial Number: 1122334455667788
        Firmware: 6.2.0-0013
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50
  Battery Backup: not present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 256M
  Minimum Stripe: 8K
  Maximum Stripe: 1M


# mfiutil -u 0 show firmware
mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 6.2.0-0013
mfi0 Firmware Images:
Name  Version            Date         Time      Status
APP   1.22.02-0612       Mar 30 2009  14:41:22  active
BIOS  2.04.00                                   active
BCON  1.1-46-e_15-Rel    Mar  2 2008  14:06:08  active
CTLR  1.02-015B          Jan 27 2009  12:02:58  active
PCLI  01.00-023:#%00006  Nov 25 2008  17:21:50  active
BTBL  1.00.00.01-0011    Nov 27 2007  18:29:20  active

# mfiutil -u 0 show events
  492 (Fri Jan  1 00:02:16 UTC 2016/BATTERY/FATAL) - Battery needs replacement - SOH Bad
  493 (Fri Jan  1 00:02:16 UTC 2016/BATTERY/WARN) - Current capacity of the battery is below threshold
  494 (Fri Jan  1 00:02:16 UTC 2016/BATTERY/WARN) - BBU disabled; changing WB virtual disks to WT
  497 (Fri Jan  1 00:04:31 UTC 2016/BATTERY/WARN) - Battery removed
  498 (Fri Jan  1 00:04:31 UTC 2016/BATTERY/CRIT) - Battery/charger problems detected; SOH Bad


# mfiutil -u 0 show logstate
mfi0 Event Log Sequence Numbers:
  Newest Seq #: 498
  Oldest Seq #: 1
   Clear Seq #: 63
Shutdown Seq #: 460
    Boot Seq #: 480
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