Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:08:38 +0200 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug Report: IBM x3650M4 (32GB, 2x4-core Xeon E5-2600, IBM ServeRaid M5110e): fails in install with NMI Message-ID: <A70FA423-E4E8-41E4-8C5D-C092EC2F56BE@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <20120914164603.GA34637@mikea.ath.cx> References: <20120827203817.GB44988@mikea.ath.cx> <201208281238.48041.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120828210618.GD69985@mikea.ath.cx> <201208290818.20990.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120914164603.GA34637@mikea.ath.cx>
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On Sep 14, 2012, at 6:46 PM, Mike A wrote: > All the stars finally moved to the right places, and I was able to try = booting > from a 9.1 amd64 memstick made from = FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-memstick.img. That > failed, both without and with boot loader hints.=20 >=20 > I had a movie camera running to catch the console message traffic. The = last > normal messages on the screen have to do with device mfi0. Here is the = last > screenfull:=20 I had a similar issue on a Dell R720 with 9.0-RELEASE. Turns out it was = a problem with the built-in RAID card. Currently there seems to be some sort of overlap or confusion between = the mpt, mps and in your case mfi driver? In my case, the card was assigned the mpt driver on 9.0-RELEASE, only to = crash with a NMI. With 9.1RC, however, the system assigned the mfi driver and it worked. If I recall _correctly_, the mps driver seems to be better for some = disk controllers that were handled by mfi. I would try to compile a system without the mfi driver and see if either mpt or mps = take over and work. It's a long shot, I know,=20 but... Borja.
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