LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives problem

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Wed, June 1, 2016 8:14 am, Paul Esson wrote:
> Hi Valeri,
>
> I had similar issue with Dell PERC 730 which is OEM of LSI card and 6TB
> 4Kn drives.  In my case I had to force the use of the MRSAS driver over
> MFI initially by exiting the boot sequence to loader prompt and typing:
>
> set hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
>
> Thereafter I added the line " hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1" to /boot/loader.conf"
> after I had installed the OS.

Thanks, Paul! Brilliant! Works like a charm.

I'm ashamed I didn't even think to look around if there is different
driver... (which we often did long-long ago ;-(

Valeri

>
> Regards,
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valeri Galtsev [mailto:galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu]
> Sent: 31 May 2016 22:13
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives problem
>
> Dear All,
>
> Does anybody have LSI MegaRAID (Avago, not LSI, I should have said) with
> 8TB 4kn drives working on the machine running FreeBSD? If yes, how did you
> install system on that machine?
>
> My problem is: when I boot from FreeBSD DVD the machine that has LSI
> MegaRAID card (MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i) with 8TB 4Kn (HGST He) the boot
> sequence gets stuck after launching CPUs loading USB (and discovering
> keyboard/mouse). After that the machine doesn't respond to keystrokes and
> keeps printing messages:
>
> mfi0: COMMAND oxfffffe0000e56cc0 TIMEOUT AFTER 56 SECONDS
>
> (and it keeps printing these lines with increasing numbers of seconds).
> This sounds like it is getting stuck when loading mfi driver for LSI
> controller. I flashed the latest firmware one cane get from AvagoTech
> website for this controller. This sounds similar to the known bug in mfi
> kernel module that was fixed in FreeBSD 9.1. Still, if I try to boot DVD
> with latest FreeBSD 10.3, or older: 10.1, 9.3, I have this problem. If I
> disconnect all drives, or connect older smaller drives with 512 byte block
> size, all goes well, and I am able to boot the machine from FreeBSD
> installation DVD. Also, I can boot Linux from DVD without problem with 4Kn
> drives attached, but you can imagine I will not be happy to have to
> install Linux instead of FreeBSD.
>
>
> Does anybody have LSI MegaRAID with 8TB 4kn drives working on the machine
> running FreeBSD?
>
> Any advises what else I could try before submit bug report?
>
> Thanks a lot for all your answers!
>
> Valeri
>
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> Physics University of Chicago
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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