On Apr 8, 2015, at 0:49, Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2015, at 19:35, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper 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. >> One more thing to try, is to put the card into PCIe slot handled by the >> south bridge instead of the CPU slot. >> >> I have two Drake Skinnies card which I cannot use, since all my machines >> are desktop class, and the only available PCIe 8x+ slots are connected >> to CPU. I was never able to get a satisfactory explanation why the >> thing does not like CPU' PCIe. > > Northbridge, Southbridge, didn’t seem to matter :/… I’ve tried all 3 PCI-E > slots to no avail. > > One thing that I’m thinking might be a problem is the fact that it’s sharing > resources between the onboard graphics and the storage controller, and plus > the other two slots were supposedly dedicated for storage purposes or some > such (NVME, etc). > > Guess I’ll try neutering the onboard GPU and see what happens... Nope. Still timing out with onboard GPU off… I give up with this motherboard...
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