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Subject: Re: problems with the mfi
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
>> > 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.
> 
> i know :-), I caught this one because the machine was not rebooting.
> can you shed some light as to what command timed out?

Unfortunately not it was a generic issue any command which timeout
would get stuck for ever.

What FreeBSD version are using and what controller are you using? 

    Regards
    Steve

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