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
