From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 7 19:14:50 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A12A6A60 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smarthost.sentex.ca", Issuer "smarthost.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 680BE63F for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t37JEmVt040694; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:14:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <55242CAD.3080205@sentex.net> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:14:53 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-current Current Subject: Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i References: <64CF176D-910E-417D-98E2-9B2C64521444@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64CF176D-910E-417D-98E2-9B2C64521444@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.75 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:14:50 -0000 On 4/7/2015 3:04 PM, 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 > Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on this issue? What firmware are you running on the card ? What does mfiutil show firmware give you ? I am running with good results so far 3 cards with on RELENG10 and RELENG9 (well, FreeNAS) mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 20.13.1-0208 mfi0 Firmware Images: Name Version Date Time Status BIOS 4.38.02.2_4.16.08.00_0x06060A05 07/23/2014 07/23/2014 active PCLI 03.02-020:#%00009 May 07 2012 13:21:53 active BCON 4.0-61-e_50-Rel Sep 09 2014 11:45:57 active NVDT 3.09.03-0064 Oct 06 2014 12:00:15 active APP 2.130.404-3836 Oct 16 2014 06:50:12 active BTBL 2.02.00.00-0001 Aug 18 2010 11:44:44 active -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/