What does "mfi0: Copy out failed" mean?

Steve Polyack korvus at comcast.net
Thu Aug 13 16:19:34 UTC 2009


Václav Haisman wrote:
> Steve Polyack wrote:
>   
>> Václav Haisman wrote:
>>     
>>> I am getting "mfi0: Copy out failed" message in logs, usually several
>>> times a
>>> day. What does it mean? This is FreeBSD 7.2.
>>>       
>  > I can't tell you exactly what the error message means, but out of
>   
>> curiosity what kind of hardware are you running? A PERC6 controller
>> perhaps?
>>     
> Yes, mfi0: <Dell PERC 6>.
>
>   
You may want to contact Scott Long, scottl at freebsd.org, to see if he can 
help.  I believe he's the author/maintainer of the mfi(4) driver.  He 
may be interested in any problems you've seen.  I've heard of some other 
people having issues with PERC6 cards and FreeBSD as well.



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