From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 08:14:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736441065670 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from borjam@sarenet.es) Received: from proxypop03.sare.net (proxypop03.sare.net [194.30.0.207]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6FA8FC15 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.2.2] (izaro.sarenet.es [192.148.167.11]) by proxypop03.sare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5439A9DC631; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:07:58 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Borja Marcos In-Reply-To: <20120914164603.GA34637@mikea.ath.cx> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:08:38 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: 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> To: Mike A X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:14:34 -0000 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.