mfi0 timeout error

[Jürgen Weber]

Team

I have googled around for a solution and I see a lot of posts about 
firmware versions and patches for FreeBSD 8.*.

I have a FreeBSD 9.1rc1 system, which was beta1 orginally and has been 
running for months.

Now it will not boot, I get the following:

"Trying to mount root from zfs:tank/root [].....
mfi0: COMMAND 0Xffffff8000cb83530 TIMEOUT AFTER xxx SECONDS
(this just repeats).

I have not seen this error before during normal runtime, _only_ during boot.

Originally when I had the problem I could boot off a USB stick (9.1beta1 
or rc1), run a 'zpool import -f tank' and it would work on the livecd. 
Rebooting and the main system would work.

This time this work around does not work for me. When I am on the USB 
stick I can run a 'zpool import' and all of the disk are recognised, the 
pool is recognised and the file system is healthy.

The Card is a H700 PERC, with 12.10.3 firmware in a Dell R515.
Running FreeBSD 9.1-RC1, latest zfs and zpool versions.

I have tried disabling the cache (mfiutil cache xxx disable). I have 
also gone into the Card settings and changed under advanced settings 
"adaptive forward read" to "read only".

Any help, appreciated.

Thanks

-- 
Jürgen Weber

Systems Engineer
IT Infrastructure Team Leader

THE ICONIC | E jurgen.weber at theiconic.com.au | www.theiconic.com.au