FreeBSD Crashes Intermittently !!

[shahzaib mushtaq]

Hi again, got back after a long time. So yes, we've move to new Dell R510
Hardware now. Here is the specs :

DELL R510
2 x L5520
64GB RAM
12x3TB Raid stripping+mirroring (HBA LSI-9211-fw version 19.00)
FreeBSD cw009.tunefiles.com 10.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 #0:
Wed Mar 16 20:46:12 UTC 2016
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
amd64

After 9days of uptime, server again got crashed with following error in
crash log :

http://pastebin.com/baShWuMP

I am so much depressed now, there's much pressure on me from my company. Please
help us resolving this crash issue . :(

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:37 PM, shahzaib shahzaib <shahzaib.cb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Well, we've some messages in kernel logs each time the server boots up
> which are :
>
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): Retrying command
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 e0 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): Retrying command
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 e0 00 00 24 00
> (probe0:mps0:0:3:7): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>
> In following post it is written that :
>
>  these are due to a mismatch between firmware and driver version
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2014-October/006505.html>
> . FreeBSD 9
> <http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sys/dev/mps/mpsvar.h?view=co> ships
> with driver version 16 and FreeBSD 10
> <http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/10/sys/dev/mps/mpsvar.h?view=co> includes
> version 19. Linux
> <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h> currently
> has version 18. So make sure that in step 11, you always flash the version
> that matches your operating system’s driver version, don’t blindly go with
> version P20 or the latest version
>
> Here is the link to that Post :
>
>
> http://blog.michael.kuron-germany.de/2014/11/crossflashing-dell-perc-h200-to-lsi-9211-8i/comment-page-1/
>
> =========================================
>
> It looks like that it might be the issue of crash as we're using LSI-9211
> controller and maybe due to mismatch between firmware and driver version
> this crash occurs.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:42 PM, lokadamus at gmx.de <lokadamus at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 03/11/16 17:15, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> >>> http://pastebin.com/042SJ11c
>> >> Have you look for bios update?
>> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DT3.cfm
>> >> Version R 2.1 is the last one.
>> >
>> > In my humble opinion, the _need_ to install BIOS update is extremely bad
>> > flag on hardware manufacturer reputation. For ages I used Tyan system
>> > boards ("motherboard" jargon became the name for system board decades
>> > ago...)
>> Ok, never use DELL. You will never be happy with it.
>> I work some month for a big company and most server problems can only be
>> solved with a bios update.
>>
>> And never look for microcode updates, that will fix things and problems.
>> Greetings
>>
>
>