Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm at transactionware.com>
To: "Konstantin Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>; "Ryan Stone" <rysto32 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE


>>> We have Drake Skinny (9240-4i and 9240-8i) cards running, most recently with 9.2-RC4. We'll be testing 9.2-RELEASE in the next 
>>> week or two.
>>>
>>> We have seen problems with older versions of the firmware, and interactions with some Supermicro BIOS versions. All these 
>>> problems have been resolved by upgrading to the latest versions of the controller firmware and system BIOSes.
>>>
>>> We're running with with hw.mfi.msi=1. I haven't tested without that since early 2011; I should probably try it out.
>>>
>>> So: What firmware do you have in the controller? Did you update it?
>>
>> Yes, I reflashed one board to the latest blob I was able to find at that
>> time.  For the second board, I did not bothered.  The info I am able to
>> find right now in my outcoming mbox, is
>>
>> (this is for four-ports, was flashed, I believe)
>> mfi0: 916 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.374-2023
>> mfi0: 917 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0126
>> mfi0: 918 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03A
>>
>> (and this is for eight-ports)
>> mfi0: 326 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.314-1585
>> mfi0: 327 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0101
>> mfi0: 328 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03B
>>
>> I am pretty much sure that the issue is either in the m/b compatibility
>> or mfi(4) driver.
>
> OK. I haven't seen timeout errors like that for a long time, so you could be right. I don't know.
>
> This is from a running 9.2-RC4 system:
>
> mfi1: <Drake Skinny> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfad9c000-0xfad9ffff,0xfadc0000-0xfadfffff irq 30 at device 0.0 on pci2
> mfi1: Using MSI
> mfi1: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
> ...
> mfi1: 15228 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.384-2291
> mfi1: 15229 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.11.1-0137
> mfi1: 15230 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03A

In every case I've invesitgated for this is been either:-
1. Old Firmware
2. Bad Cabling, Disk or Ram

I'm 99.9999% certain timeout issues are not a driver issue. #1 is the cause of
almost all occurances I've looked at.

FW we're running here is:
mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
...
mfi0: 14299 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 3.190.05-1669
mfi0: 14300 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 23.7.0-0029
mfi0: 14301 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision

So looks like your FW is quite old and needs updating.

    Regards
    Steve 


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