Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:14:02 +0000 From: Paul Esson <paul.esson@redstor.com> To: "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: <VI1PR01MB14395583A22480559C6EF30D9E470@VI1PR01MB1439.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> In-Reply-To: <22569.128.135.52.6.1464729151.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <22569.128.135.52.6.1464729151.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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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 in= itially by exiting the boot sequence to loader prompt and typing: set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=3D1 Thereafter I added the line " hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=3D1" to /boot/loader.conf= " after I had installed the OS. Regards,=20 Paul Esson=A0=A0|=A0=A0Redstor Limited t=A0=A0+44 (0)118 951 5235=A0=A0|=A0=A0=A0m=A0=A0+44 (0)776 690 6514 e=A0=A0paul.esson@redstor.com www.redstor.com -----Original Message----- From: Valeri Galtsev [mailto:galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu]=20 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 8T= B 4kn drives working on the machine running FreeBSD? If yes, how did you in= stall system on that machine? My problem is: when I boot from FreeBSD DVD the machine that has LSI MegaRA= ID card (MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i) with 8TB 4Kn (HGST He) the boot sequence get= s stuck after launching CPUs loading USB (and discovering keyboard/mouse). = After that the machine doesn't respond to keystrokes and keeps printing mes= sages: 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 contro= ller. 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 Fre= eBSD 10.3, or older: 10.1, 9.3, I have this problem. If I disconnect all dr= ives, or connect older smaller drives with 512 byte block size, all goes we= ll, 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 FreeBS= D. Does anybody have LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives working on the machine r= unning 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 P= hysics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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