From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue May 31 21:12:38 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08658B5B39B for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 21:12:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08511437 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 21:12:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 54391CB8CAB; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:12:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Tue, 31 May 2016 16:12:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <22569.128.135.52.6.1464729151.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:12:31 -0500 (CDT) Subject: LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives problem From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 21:12:38 -0000 Dear All, Does anybody have LSI MegaRAID (Avago, not LSI, I should have said) with 8TB 4kn drives working on the machine running FreeBSD? If yes, how did you install system on that machine? My problem is: when I boot from FreeBSD DVD the machine that has LSI MegaRAID card (MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i) with 8TB 4Kn (HGST He) the boot sequence gets stuck after launching CPUs loading USB (and discovering keyboard/mouse). After that the machine doesn't respond to keystrokes and keeps printing messages: mfi0: COMMAND oxfffffe0000e56cc0 TIMEOUT AFTER 56 SECONDS (and it keeps printing these lines with increasing numbers of seconds). This sounds like it is getting stuck when loading mfi driver for LSI controller. I flashed the latest firmware one cane get from AvagoTech website for this controller. This sounds similar to the known bug in mfi kernel module that was fixed in FreeBSD 9.1. Still, if I try to boot DVD with latest FreeBSD 10.3, or older: 10.1, 9.3, I have this problem. If I disconnect all drives, or connect older smaller drives with 512 byte block size, all goes well, and I am able to boot the machine from FreeBSD installation DVD. Also, I can boot Linux from DVD without problem with 4Kn drives attached, but you can imagine I will not be happy to have to install Linux instead of FreeBSD. Does anybody have LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives working on the machine running FreeBSD? Any advises what else I could try before submit bug report? Thanks a lot for all your answers! Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++