Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm at transactionware.com>

>>> mfi1: <Drake Skinny> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xfad9c000-0xfad9ffff,0xfadc0000-0xfadfffff irq 30 at device 0.0 on pci2
>>> mfi1: Using MSI
>>> mfi1: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
>>> ...
>>> mfi1: 15228 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.384-2291
>>> mfi1: 15229 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.11.1-0137
>>> mfi1: 15230 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03A
>> 
>> In every case I've invesitgated for this is been either:-
>> 1. Old Firmware
>> 2. Bad Cabling, Disk or Ram
>> 
>> I'm 99.9999% certain timeout issues are not a driver issue. #1 is the cause of
>> almost all occurances I've looked at.
>> 
>> FW we're running here is:
>> mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23
>> ...
>> mfi0: 14299 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 3.190.05-1669
>> mfi0: 14300 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 23.7.0-0029
>> mfi0: 14301 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision
>> 
>> So looks like your FW is quite old and needs updating.
>
> Either we're not talking about the same card or there is somewhere to find
> firmware that I don't know about.
>
> I just checked the LSI website for 9240-4i firmware and there is a
> 20.12.1-0150 version (labeled "4.11") released on 23 September 2013. The
> previous version is the version running in this machine.
>
> Are we talking about the same card? Is there a better place to look for
> firmware updates on the LSI website?

There are many different MFI controllers unforutnately making tracking
versions very hard especially when OEM's have different versions again.
Id suggest contacting LSI support and request the FW with the command
timeout fix in.

    Regards
    Steve


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