[Bug 243401] ahci driver problems with Marvell 88SE9230 (Dell BOSS-S1)

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F Sidoli <f.sidoli at ucl.ac.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from F Sidoli <f.sidoli at ucl.ac.uk> ---

Hi Peter,

FWIW, I'm also having this same issue on a PE R740xd2 server with the BOSS-S1. 

In my particular case, I have the BOSS (in JBOD) and a H730P PERC (in HBA
mode)installed. I wanted to replace the latter with an HBA330 as I can't
encrypt the disks at the disk level (they're SEDs) without the PERC locking
them out and not passing them through to the OS on power cycle. 

Anyway, with the HBA installed the system partially boots and then fails, but
it does just fine with the RAID card put back in. 

If I try to do a fresh install with the HBA in then I can't see the BOSS cards
at all, so can't install to them. With the RAID card in there's no problem. 

If I firmware patch the BOSS to latest the system just doesn't boot at all
regardless of which card I have in. 

Quite what this all means I don't know. I'm not sure if it's a driver issues in
FreeNAS or if Dell are breaking things. I suspect a little bit of A and a
little bit of B. 

That being said, I have been told by Dell that one of their engineers has
managed to get a test system of theirs set up running the latest BOSS firmware
and FreeNAS 11.3. Seems to me they have the BOSS in a RAID 1 and the legacy
BIOS option set. 

Once verified I will repost here.

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