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From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <j...@transactionware.com>
To: "Konstantin Belousov" <kostik...@gmail.com>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; "Ryan Stone" <ryst...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE
We have Drake Skinny (9240-4i and 9240-8i) cards running, most recently with 9.2-RC4. We'll be testing 9.2-RELEASE in the next
week or two.
We have seen problems with older versions of the firmware, and interactions with some Supermicro BIOS versions. All these
problems have been resolved by upgrading to the latest versions of the controller firmware and system BIOSes.
We're running with with hw.mfi.msi=1. I haven't tested without that since early
2011; I should probably try it out.
So: What firmware do you have in the controller? Did you update it?
Yes, I reflashed one board to the latest blob I was able to find at that
time. For the second board, I did not bothered. The info I am able to
find right now in my outcoming mbox, is
(this is for four-ports, was flashed, I believe)
mfi0: 916 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.374-2023
mfi0: 917 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0126
mfi0: 918 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03A
(and this is for eight-ports)
mfi0: 326 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.314-1585
mfi0: 327 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0101
mfi0: 328 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03B
I am pretty much sure that the issue is either in the m/b compatibility
or mfi(4) driver.
OK. I haven't seen timeout errors like that for a long time, so you could be
right. I don't know.
This is from a running 9.2-RC4 system:
mfi1: <Drake Skinny> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
0xfad9c000-0xfad9ffff,0xfadc0000-0xfadfffff irq 30 at device 0.0 on pci2
mfi1: Using MSI
mfi1: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
...
mfi1: 15228 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.384-2291
mfi1: 15229 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.11.1-0137
mfi1: 15230 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03A
In every case I've invesitgated for this is been either:-
1. Old Firmware
2. Bad Cabling, Disk or Ram
I'm 99.9999% certain timeout issues are not a driver issue. #1 is the cause of
almost all occurances I've looked at.
FW we're running here is:
mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
...
mfi0: 14299 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 3.190.05-1669
mfi0: 14300 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 23.7.0-0029
mfi0: 14301 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision
So looks like your FW is quite old and needs updating.
Regards
Steve
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