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Subject: Re: problems with the mfi
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:46:38 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>


> On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:48:28 am Daniel Braniss wrote:
>> after rebooting I get very often:
>> ...
>> mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffff800132d990 TIMEOUT AFTER 659 SECONDS
>> mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffff800132d990 TIMEOUT AFTER 689 SECONDS
>> mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffff800132d990 TIMEOUT AFTER 719 SECONDS
>> ...
>> 
>> another reboot usualy fixes this.
> 
> Does it have the latest firmware?

Be aware that the current code for mfi timeout's never abort so
if you get a command stuck it will moan forever.

This is one of the issues fixed in a patch that's in testing.

    Regards
    Steve

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