On Apr 7, 2015, at 12:04, Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era > CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard > (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I’ve run into some fun issues with > my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it’s timing out because of issues > noted similar to here: > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . > I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: > - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS > - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode > in the BIOS; etc) > - Turned off 4GB “remapping” on the PCM. > - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, > 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT > - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE > - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. > - Booted with boot -v. > Every time I run into MFI send command timeouts that eventually turn > into > Here’s the message I got (transcribed) with 11-CURRENT with boot -v: > > mfi0: <Drake Skinny> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdfc60000-0x…. on pci2 > mfi0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported) > pci: routing MSI IRQ 264 to local APIC 0 vector 59 > mfi0: using IRQ 264 for MSI > mfi0: using MSI > mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23 > mfi0: Frame 0xfffffe07f719f280 timed out command 0x1010000 > Error 60 in callback from mfi_send_frame > > The complete screenshot for that timeout can be found here: > https://people.freebsd.org/~ngie/mfi-timeout-boot-verbose.jpg > What I haven’t done yet: > - Exporting the volume with the old motherboard and importing it with > the new motherboard (I need to do some reading before I do this though > because I don’t want to toast my data by accident :(…). > - Booted either Linux or Windows to make sure the controller works with > the motherboard CentOS 7.1 release is no bueno either with similar errors. So it’s most likely a hardware compatibility issue.
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