Recovering nested raid (was LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot)

2012-06-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:46:55 +0200 Ramon Hofer wrote: > I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the > array :-o I've already asked this before on the debian list and got an answer. But I'm not sure if I should do this. Here's a link to my old problem: http://lists.debian.

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-17 Thread Ramon Hofer
I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the array :-o First of all the old WD green 2TB disk which was marked failed also makes problems in the Netgear ReadyNas. I will see if I still have warranty and try to get a new one. But the other issue scares me a bit ;-) Here's wh

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-16 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Well lets look at this more closely. The disks may not be bad. How > old are they? Send me your dmesg output: Sorry I forgot to write the last time: The WD20EARS I have bough between 14. Dec 2010 and 01. Oct 2011. Maybe it was also ca

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/15/2012 8:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > First of all I tried to set the raid5 with the WD 20EARS and didn't > > have much luck. They led to fail events when mdadm builds the array. > > They "worked" in my Netgear NV+ with very low

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/14/2012 4:51 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> These commands don't match the pastebin. The pastebin shows you > >> creating a 4 disk RAID5 as /dev/md0. > > > > Really :-? > > That kind of (wrong) analysis is one of the many outcomes

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2012 8:02 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > AF drives are Advanced Format drives with more than 512 bytes per > sector right? Correct. Advanced Format is the industry wide name chosen for drives that have 4096B physical sectors, but present 512B sectors at the interface level, doing translation i

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2012 9:45 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your >> fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with >> inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your > fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with > inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front of AG0 causing lots > of seeks. Inode64 puts fil

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:29:25 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff > already covered. Hope that's ok. Sure. Your mail still blew

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/13/2012 1:04 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB >>> disks attached to the LSI. Then: >>> >>> ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 >> >> WTF? > > I also had to add --f

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff already covered. Hope that's ok. >> Note I stated "call". You're likely to get more/better >> information/assistance speaking to

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/12/2012 8:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> Try the Wheezy installer. Try OpenSuSE. Try Fedora. If any of > >> these work without lockup we know the problem is Debian

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB > > disks attached to the LSI. Then: > > > > ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 > > WTF? I also had to add --force to create the array with one raid5. > > Now

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/12/2012 12:05 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > (...) > >> You create two 4 drive md RAID5 arrays, one composed of the four >> identical 1.5TB drives and the other composed of the four identical >> 2TB drives. Then concatenate the two ar

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/12/2012 8:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Try the Wheezy installer. Try OpenSuSE. Try Fedora. If any of these >> work without lockup we know the problem is Debian 6. However... > > I didn't do this because it the LSI worked with t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > You create two 4 drive md RAID5 arrays, one composed of the four > identical 1.5TB drives and the other composed of the four identical > 2TB drives. Then concatenate the two arrays together into an md > --linear array, similar to t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 06/12/2012 09:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 6/10/2012 9:00 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached >>> the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the >>> graph

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/10/2012 9:00 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached > > the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the > > graphics card. There are no disks attached to the expan

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-10 Thread Ramon Hofer
A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the graphics card. There are no disks attached to the expander because I put them again into the old NAS and backing up the data from the 1.5 TB disks to it. Then I instal

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/6/2012 9:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > It's me again. > > After several unsuccessful tries to update the BIOS I brought it back to > my dealer to let him do it. > He now says that the mainboard is broken and I get my money back. Interesting... > Now my question is should I go for the same mai

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
It's me again. After several unsuccessful tries to update the BIOS I brought it back to my dealer to let him do it. He now says that the mainboard is broken and I get my money back. Now my question is should I go for the same mainboard again or what do you recommend? I suppose the LSI problem was

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/30/2012 4:52 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 >>> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 924

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 > >> BIOS show the disk device, RAID level,

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:09:27 +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Did you already flash the C7P67 BIOS to the latest version? I can't >> recall. > > I have tried to do that but it was quite strange. I created a freedos > usb stick with unetbootin and copied the files for the update from > supermicro int

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > (...) > >> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS >> show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? >> >> What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS p

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-29 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS > show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? > > What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this > point or a Debian installer kernel dr

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/21/2012 2:00 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > From my /var/log/installer/syslog I think it uses 2.6.32-5-amd64. > I have attached the tree log files again (maybe you haven't seen them > when I posted them to the list). > There are two syslogs (the one from /var/log as well). And > the /var/log/instal

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:35:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion, Henrique! > >> The PSU is a 750 W so I think it should be enough for now. > > > > Yes, it is probably enough. You have to do a lot to overpower a *good*

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:27:21 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 9:24 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> > >>> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I > >>> hoped

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) >> >> Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. > > Grrr. > >>> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options: >>> >>> Quiet Boot:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:59:53 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. >> But I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set >> the bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:35:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. But > I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set the > bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me the option is already set - so > it should be ok? > > Unfortu

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) > > Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. Grrr. >> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options: >> >> Quiet Boot: DISABLED >> Interrupt 19 Capture:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:5

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/20/2012 9:24 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >>> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped >>> you could jump in and help me :-) >> >> I'm actively working on it, have

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped >> you could jump in and help me :-) > > I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. > I'm re

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped >> you could jump in and help me :-) > > I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. > I'm re

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:12:55 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:41:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Mmm, have you tried to set a RAID level instead using JBOD? It's just >> for testing... although this can only be done in a very early stage >> when the disks are completely empty wit

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> >> >>> On

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:41:33 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I have tried to check if I can see something in the mb BIOS to see if >> it can tell me anything about the connected hardware. But I didn't find >> anything in the PCI settings. > > Mmm, have you tried to set a RAID level instead using

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 11:05 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > And after a while there are more messages which I don't understand. I > have taken a picture: > http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2012 11:05 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: And after a while there are more messages which I don't understand. I have taken a picture: http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg >>> >>> It shows that udev is having serious troubl

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. > And somehow I hoped you could jump in and help me :-) I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. I'm reading your responses as I go before responding so I hopefully don't re

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> > >>> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >>> > After that I would look t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> And after a while there are more messages which I don't understand. I > >> have taken a picture: > >> http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg > > > > It shows that udev is having serious trouble handling one of the USB > > devices. > > Yes but only wh

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:26:09 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:52 +, Camaleón wrote: >> You installed the lsi card in one of the motherboard slots, configured >> the BIOS to use a JBOD disk layout and then boot the installation CD >> for Squeeze, right? > > Yes, but I did

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:33:06 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Post your FW version here. It's likely pretty recent already. > > The FW version is 2.70.04-0862. > > I have a little confusion with the versioning from LSI. On their > homepa

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Are you running Squeeze? >> >> Yes, sorry forgot to mention. >> >> I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: >>> After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 9:23 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> message on the screen: >> >> megasas: INIT ada

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 18:28:05 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 4:55 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). > > You need to explain this in detail: "installed on raid1" > > Installed onto what raid1? Does this mean you created an mdad

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: >> >>> After that I would look to see if >>> something isn't shorting out a USB port. >> >> Yes, USB is the cause of the over-current errors, which is

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Are you running Squeeze? > > Yes, sorry forgot to mention. > > I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). Today when > the card was here I put it in and couldn't b

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> After that I would look to see if >> something isn't shorting out a USB port. > > Yes, USB is the cause of the over-current errors, which is plainly > evident in his screen shot. But we don

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2012 4:55 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). You need to explain this in detail: "installed on raid1" Installed onto what raid1? Does this mean you created an mdadm raid1 pair during the Squeeze installation process, and installed to

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > Over current problems from what I have seen are hardware problems - I would > make sure the intel expander doesn't need a external power source and if it > does that it is functioning properly. Ramon is well aware of the power configuration for the ex

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2012 9:23 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Hi all > > I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. > > Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this > message on the screen: > > megasas: INIT adapter done > hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 > hub 4-1:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:51 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> message on the screen: >> >> megasas: INIT adapt

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:51 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. > > Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this > message on the screen: > > megasas: INIT adapter done > hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 > hub 4

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:39:57 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ramon Hofer > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> message on the screen: >> >> meg

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Shane Johnson
Over current problems from what I have seen are hardware problems - I would make sure the intel expander doesn't need a external power source and if it does that it is functioning properly. After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port. Shane On Fri, May 18, 2012 at

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen: megasas: INIT adapter done hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 8 I also got the over-cur