From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 00:04:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513F493B for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au) Received: from exprod6og109.obsmtp.com (exprod6og109.obsmtp.com [64.18.1.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB1618FC08 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f72.google.com ([209.85.220.72]) (using TLSv1) by exprod6ob109.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUICZGZpT/1DTz1sS4w+wIJJliw3mN/6i@postini.com; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:04:47 PDT Received: by mail-pa0-f72.google.com with SMTP id fb11so18920120pad.7 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:04:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=gqOpC+TcDLtE+9yQ/zftNcgBt0h3WLffh+Os2hbYgTY=; b=DDEEQtfA75qWbm0u6V83i6vDZxslE1fA2HU6flwKHe2823Otccg/qZX1CdPpnmwyE/ uDeA4odmxwwiVq3iymScGQHbzjV4OUzpapmi5vEG98i/Q9USpo//FJ6M4rtNm1bxdUA7 TqfpBnTPvG1ZvFdWYwt7v5eXcgwQP2QkfuWlg/T/ye93PgxlAOe3nfcmU/E7XjkbeoTm MOcR2UyUiI7chOMi2zw8c/KW6LdpX4pGdmxHUjlDwDoAQRpZBlAmHcMlyy1rBIcJCj+a voGStvP0cM9v/MPFQD9AgMjE9HWiKdR9r5lnj7tWQWjRo352GCjhwHzO+SSt0Kqald9H 2+RA== Received: by 10.68.136.231 with SMTP id qd7mr70883803pbb.3.1350604682301; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.136.231 with SMTP id qd7mr70660902pbb.3.1350602991388; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.24.157] ([202.126.107.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i4sm27049pav.20.2012.10.18.16.29.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <508090E8.4010300@theiconic.com.au> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:29:44 +1100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Weber?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: mfi0 timeout error Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlyvyUANTH8HAGhgnwWgOzh8BTHNtdvDQOpNrWNjH4w7i0PuVKusorTQwXUpyPZhyLr7b+3bwl1l9Vm53+Lpw0h9vMZytrnzi/n0UwogAA1sVMZUIDYSgj9VszW9g0g6rEojj3/4KrXauuWRZMIoSVn9nM/qg== X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:04:49 -0000 Team I have googled around for a solution and I see a lot of posts about firmware versions and patches for FreeBSD 8.*. I have a FreeBSD 9.1rc1 system, which was beta1 orginally and has been running for months. Now it will not boot, I get the following: "Trying to mount root from zfs:tank/root []..... mfi0: COMMAND 0Xffffff8000cb83530 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS (this just repeats). I have not seen this error before during normal runtime, _only_ during boot. Originally when I had the problem I could boot off a USB stick (9.1beta1 or rc1), run a 'zpool import -f tank' and it would work on the livecd. Rebooting and the main system would work. This time this work around does not work for me. When I am on the USB stick I can run a 'zpool import' and all of the disk are recognised, the pool is recognised and the file system is healthy. The Card is a H700 PERC, with 12.10.3 firmware in a Dell R515. Running FreeBSD 9.1-RC1, latest zfs and zpool versions. I have tried disabling the cache (mfiutil cache xxx disable). I have also gone into the Card settings and changed under advanced settings "adaptive forward read" to "read only". Any help, appreciated. Thanks -- Jürgen Weber Systems Engineer IT Infrastructure Team Leader THE ICONIC | E jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au | www.theiconic.com.au