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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:16:23 +0400
From:      pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mfi(4) endless loop kernel output on attach
Message-ID:  <a31046fc0910150816j4227ad79p6373cf83a1bb2a2d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200910150853.49850.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <a31046fc0910150251q727ea426jca72be60ed29d513@mail.gmail.com> <200910150853.49850.jhb@freebsd.org>

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2009/10/15 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 5:51:19 am pluknet wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> This is 7.2-R. Seen on IBM x3650M2.
>>
>> During the boot I get those endless looping kernel messages while on
>> mfi(4) attach phase.
>> It's getting more odd since 7.2 booted and worked fine on exactly this
>> server model
>> months ago (on different box though).. Any hints?
>
> We just had some boxes die like this (but spewing a different loop of mes=
sages
> on boot related to continuously scheduling patrol reads and consistency
> checks that finished immediately) at work. =A0We fixed them by swapping o=
ut the
> controller. =A0We might try stick them in a different box and reflashing =
them
> using mfiutil(8) to see if it's some sort of corrupted state that flashin=
g
> the adapter fixes.
>
> In your case it looks lik the firmware keeps crashing and restarting.

Probably it is. Though clearing logs helped me.


--=20
wbr,
pluknet



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