mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i

[NGie Cooper]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> On 4/7/2015 3:14 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>
>> On 4/7/2015 3:04 PM, Garrett Cooper 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’ve run
>>> into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular,
>>> it’s timing out because of issues noted similar to here:
>>>
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html
>>> . I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue:
>>>     - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS
>
>
> Probably not related to your issue, but another trick with this card that
> was helpful for me
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-December/262744.html

Hmmm... ok. I can set that from the WebBIOS too.

Weird why it would be an issue now since I basically unplugged the
card from my old motherboard and plugged it into my new one (no
cabling changed); it shows up at POST too, and everything's groovy
there...

Thanks!