Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 10:13:54 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Paul Esson" <paul.esson@redstor.com> Cc: "galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives problem Message-ID: <12885.128.135.52.6.1464880434.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR01MB14395583A22480559C6EF30D9E470@VI1PR01MB1439.eurprd01.prod.ex changelabs.com> References: <22569.128.135.52.6.1464729151.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <VI1PR01MB14395583A22480559C6EF30D9E470@VI1PR01MB1439.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
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On Wed, June 1, 2016 8:14 am, Paul Esson wrote: > Hi Valeri, > > I had similar issue with Dell PERC 730 which is OEM of LSI card and 6TB > 4Kn drives. In my case I had to force the use of the MRSAS driver over > MFI initially by exiting the boot sequence to loader prompt and typing: > > set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1 > > Thereafter I added the line " hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1" to /boot/loader.conf" > after I had installed the OS. Thanks, Paul! Brilliant! Works like a charm. I'm ashamed I didn't even think to look around if there is different driver... (which we often did long-long ago ;-( Valeri > > Regards, > > Paul Esson | Redstor Limited > t +44 (0)118 951 5235 | m +44 (0)776 690 6514 > e paul.esson@redstor.com > www.redstor.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Valeri Galtsev [mailto:galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu] > Sent: 31 May 2016 22:13 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives problem > > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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