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

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm at transactionware.com>
To: "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com>
Cc: "Konstantin Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com>; "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>; "Ryan Stone" <rysto32 at gmail.com>; 
<freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE


>
> On 5 Oct 2013, at 2:32 am, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 18:27 +1000, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Does it make sense then, to take a survey and add a recommended minium
>>> f/w for cards that we know about to the man page?
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like a great idea.
>>
>> I can provide the following *good* firmware infos:
>>
>> ===
>>
>> In order:
>>
>> 1. (as root) mfiutil show adapter | grep Name
>> 2. grep 'mfi[[:digit:]]\{1,\}:.*\(vers\|Board\)' /var/run/dmesg.boot
>> 3. (as root) mfiutil show firmware | grep Pack # only required on older cards
>>
>> ===
>
> The mfiutils instructions only work for the first card in the system.
>
> I just went through a few running systems and found these combinations. Some of these are looking a bit old and should be 
> upgraded. All are running fine.
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
> mfi0: 21552 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.383-2315
> mfi0: 21554 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.13.0-0154
> mfi0: 21555 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i
> 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
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
> mfi0: 62632 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.243-1482
> mfi0: 62634 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.12.0-0090
> mfi0: 62635 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
> mfi0: 6559 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.374-2023
> mfi0: 6560 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0126
> mfi0: 6561 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 04A
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
> mfi0: 74819 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.183-1415
> mfi0: 74822 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.12.0-0073
> mfi0: 74823 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
> mfi0: 72049 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.63-1242
> mfi0: 72051 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.12.0-0048
> mfi0: 72052 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>
>    Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
> mfi0: 2463 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.354-1664
> mfi0: 2464 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0107
> mfi0: 2465 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 04A

Just to confirm when you say fine, have you checked to ensure none
are reporting timeouts?

    Regards
    Steve 


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