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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 2015 00:02:38 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
Message-ID:  <09C852C6-6EFA-4DC1-9411-64C4C7147C2E@gmail.com>
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On Apr 7, 2015, at 12:04, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era =
CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style =
CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I=92ve run =
into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it=92s=
 timing out because of issues noted similar to here: =
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.htm=
l . I=92ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue:
> 	- Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS
> 	- Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power =
savings mode in the BIOS; etc)
> 	- Turned off 4GB =93remapping=94 on the PCM.
> 	- Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, =
10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT
> 	- Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE
> 	- Booted with hw.mfi.msi=3D0 set in loader.
> 	- Booted with boot -v.
> 	Every time I run into MFI send command timeouts that eventually =
turn into=20
> 	Here=92s the message I got (transcribed) with 11-CURRENT with =
boot -v:
>=20
> mfi0: <Drake Skinny> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdfc60000-0x=85. on pci2
> mfi0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported)
> pci: routing MSI IRQ 264 to local APIC 0 vector 59
> mfi0: using IRQ 264 for MSI
> mfi0: using MSI
> mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
> mfi0: Frame 0xfffffe07f719f280 timed out command 0x1010000
> Error 60 in callback from mfi_send_frame
>=20
> 	The complete screenshot for that timeout can be found here: =
https://people.freebsd.org/~ngie/mfi-timeout-boot-verbose.jpg
> 	What I haven=92t done yet:
> 	- Exporting the volume with the old motherboard and importing it =
with the new motherboard (I need to do some reading before I do this =
though because I don=92t want to toast my data by accident :(=85).
> 	- Booted either Linux or Windows to make sure the controller =
works with the motherboard

CentOS 7.1 release is no bueno either with similar errors. So it=92s =
most likely a hardware compatibility issue.

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