Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Garrett Cooperwrote: ... > It booted both FreeBSD/Linux without my controller — the hardware > compatibility with it just sucks. > > Email back from ASUS, “it’s not in our compatibility list. Use another card”. > Uh, yeah… right. Not going to dump another $300 in an LSI card and redo my > RAID. Guess I’ll purchase another motherboard. > > Thank you for the input everyone. I’ll leave a helpful review on Newegg so > others don’t stumble on this either. (following up/closing out the thread from last year on a more constructive note) I recently had to replace my P6T-WS motherboard/CPU because it finally bit the dust (it was 7 years old). I found a ASUS desktop board that worked with the before mentioned LSI card -- ASUS Z170M-E D3. The compatibility list didn't mention my LSI card specifically, but it said that they validated the 9260-4i card, which was "close enough" apparently. The card's detected properly at POST, it attaches in FreeBSD, and the volume looks AOK. The only thing that's slightly annoying is that the chipset does some silly things with the onboard graphics when I plug it in initially (I believe it thinks it's a graphics card..), so I had to tweak some BIOS settings. Thanks! -Ngie ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:47, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2015, at 0:49, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2015, at 19:35, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I?ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it?s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I?ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode in the BIOS; etc) - Turned off 4GB ?remapping? on the PCM. - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. - Booted with boot -v. One more thing to try, is to put the card into PCIe slot handled by the south bridge instead of the CPU slot. I have two Drake Skinnies card which I cannot use, since all my machines are desktop class, and the only available PCIe 8x+ slots are connected to CPU. I was never able to get a satisfactory explanation why the thing does not like CPU' PCIe. Northbridge, Southbridge, didn’t seem to matter :/… I’ve tried all 3 PCI-E slots to no avail. One thing that I’m thinking might be a problem is the fact that it’s sharing resources between the onboard graphics and the storage controller, and plus the other two slots were supposedly dedicated for storage purposes or some such (NVME, etc). Guess I’ll try neutering the onboard GPU and see what happens... Nope. Still timing out with onboard GPU off… I give up with this motherboard... If your motherboard is not listed in the following lists as suitable for Linux , it may cause problems under Unix like operating systems : http://www.asus.com/Static_WebPage/OS_Compatibility/ http://www.asus.com/websites/global/aboutASUS/OS/Linux1410.pdf http://www.asus.com/Static_WebPage/Server/ It booted both FreeBSD/Linux without my controller — the hardware compatibility with it just sucks. Email back from ASUS, “it’s not in our compatibility list. Use another card”. Uh, yeah… right. Not going to dump another $300 in an LSI card and redo my RAID. Guess I’ll purchase another motherboard. Thank you for the input everyone. I’ll leave a helpful review on Newegg so others don’t stumble on this either. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2015, at 0:49, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2015, at 19:35, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I?ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it?s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I?ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode in the BIOS; etc) - Turned off 4GB ?remapping? on the PCM. - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. - Booted with boot -v. One more thing to try, is to put the card into PCIe slot handled by the south bridge instead of the CPU slot. I have two Drake Skinnies card which I cannot use, since all my machines are desktop class, and the only available PCIe 8x+ slots are connected to CPU. I was never able to get a satisfactory explanation why the thing does not like CPU' PCIe. Northbridge, Southbridge, didn’t seem to matter :/… I’ve tried all 3 PCI-E slots to no avail. One thing that I’m thinking might be a problem is the fact that it’s sharing resources between the onboard graphics and the storage controller, and plus the other two slots were supposedly dedicated for storage purposes or some such (NVME, etc). Guess I’ll try neutering the onboard GPU and see what happens... Nope. Still timing out with onboard GPU off… I give up with this motherboard... If your motherboard is not listed in the following lists as suitable for Linux , it may cause problems under Unix like operating systems : http://www.asus.com/Static_WebPage/OS_Compatibility/ http://www.asus.com/websites/global/aboutASUS/OS/Linux1410.pdf http://www.asus.com/Static_WebPage/Server/ Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Apr 7, 2015, at 19:35, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I?ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it?s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I?ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode in the BIOS; etc) - Turned off 4GB ?remapping? on the PCM. - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. - Booted with boot -v. One more thing to try, is to put the card into PCIe slot handled by the south bridge instead of the CPU slot. I have two Drake Skinnies card which I cannot use, since all my machines are desktop class, and the only available PCIe 8x+ slots are connected to CPU. I was never able to get a satisfactory explanation why the thing does not like CPU' PCIe. Northbridge, Southbridge, didn’t seem to matter :/… I’ve tried all 3 PCI-E slots to no avail. One thing that I’m thinking might be a problem is the fact that it’s sharing resources between the onboard graphics and the storage controller, and plus the other two slots were supposedly dedicated for storage purposes or some such (NVME, etc). Guess I’ll try neutering the onboard GPU and see what happens... signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Apr 7, 2015, at 12:04, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I’ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it’s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode in the BIOS; etc) - Turned off 4GB “remapping” on the PCM. - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. - Booted with boot -v. Every time I run into MFI send command timeouts that eventually turn into Here’s the message I got (transcribed) with 11-CURRENT with boot -v: mfi0: Drake Skinny port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdfc6-0x…. on pci2 mfi0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported) pci: routing MSI IRQ 264 to local APIC 0 vector 59 mfi0: using IRQ 264 for MSI mfi0: using MSI mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23 mfi0: Frame 0xfe07f719f280 timed out command 0x101 Error 60 in callback from mfi_send_frame The complete screenshot for that timeout can be found here: https://people.freebsd.org/~ngie/mfi-timeout-boot-verbose.jpg What I haven’t done yet: - Exporting the volume with the old motherboard and importing it with the new motherboard (I need to do some reading before I do this though because I don’t want to toast my data by accident :(…). - Booted either Linux or Windows to make sure the controller works with the motherboard CentOS 7.1 release is no bueno either with similar errors. So it’s most likely a hardware compatibility issue. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Apr 8, 2015, at 0:49, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2015, at 19:35, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I?ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it?s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I?ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode in the BIOS; etc) - Turned off 4GB ?remapping? on the PCM. - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. - Booted with boot -v. One more thing to try, is to put the card into PCIe slot handled by the south bridge instead of the CPU slot. I have two Drake Skinnies card which I cannot use, since all my machines are desktop class, and the only available PCIe 8x+ slots are connected to CPU. I was never able to get a satisfactory explanation why the thing does not like CPU' PCIe. Northbridge, Southbridge, didn’t seem to matter :/… I’ve tried all 3 PCI-E slots to no avail. One thing that I’m thinking might be a problem is the fact that it’s sharing resources between the onboard graphics and the storage controller, and plus the other two slots were supposedly dedicated for storage purposes or some such (NVME, etc). Guess I’ll try neutering the onboard GPU and see what happens... Nope. Still timing out with onboard GPU off… I give up with this motherboard... signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 4/7/2015 3:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I’ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it’s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on this issue? What firmware are you running on the card ? What does mfiutil show firmware give you ? I am running with good results so far 3 cards with on RELENG10 and RELENG9 (well, FreeNAS) mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 20.13.1-0208 mfi0 Firmware Images: Name Version Date Time Status BIOS 4.38.02.2_4.16.08.00_0x06060A05 07/23/2014 07/23/2014 active PCLI 03.02-020:#%9May 07 2012 13:21:53 active BCON 4.0-61-e_50-Rel Sep 09 2014 11:45:57 active NVDT 3.09.03-0064 Oct 06 2014 12:00:15 active APP 2.130.404-3836 Oct 16 2014 06:50:12 active BTBL 2.02.00.00-0001 Aug 18 2010 11:44:44 active Hi Mike! That's the version I'm running too. Do you have the same model motherboard (there are a couple Z97s, I don't think it matters which one as long as it's the same family)? If so, it's probably something to do with the state of the volume, i.e. I might need to export and reimport it. Thanks for the feedback :)! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On 4/7/2015 3:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I’ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it’s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on this issue? What firmware are you running on the card ? What does mfiutil show firmware give you ? I am running with good results so far 3 cards with on RELENG10 and RELENG9 (well, FreeNAS) mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 20.13.1-0208 mfi0 Firmware Images: Name Version Date Time Status BIOS 4.38.02.2_4.16.08.00_0x06060A05 07/23/2014 07/23/2014 active PCLI 03.02-020:#%9May 07 2012 13:21:53 active BCON 4.0-61-e_50-Rel Sep 09 2014 11:45:57 active NVDT 3.09.03-0064 Oct 06 2014 12:00:15 active APP 2.130.404-3836 Oct 16 2014 06:50:12 active BTBL 2.02.00.00-0001 Aug 18 2010 11:44:44 active -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On 4/7/2015 4:25 PM, NGie Cooper wrote: Hi Mike! That's the version I'm running too. Do you have the same model motherboard (there are a couple Z97s, I don't think it matters which one as long as it's the same family)? If so, it's probably something to do with the state of the volume, i.e. I might need to export and reimport it. Thanks for the feedback :)! Hi, All are Intel MB S1200RP_SE. Sorry :( I will take a quick look in the lab to see if there are any ASUS boards around, but I dont think so. BIOS Information Vendor: Intel Corp. Version: S1200RP.86B.02.01.0004.051320141432 Release Date: 05/13/2014 ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On 4/7/2015 3:14 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 4/7/2015 3:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I’ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it’s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS Probably not related to your issue, but another trick with this card that was helpful for me https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-December/262744.html ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net wrote: On 4/7/2015 3:14 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 4/7/2015 3:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I’ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it’s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I’ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS Probably not related to your issue, but another trick with this card that was helpful for me https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-December/262744.html Hmmm... ok. I can set that from the WebBIOS too. Weird why it would be an issue now since I basically unplugged the card from my old motherboard and plugged it into my new one (no cabling changed); it shows up at POST too, and everything's groovy there... Thanks! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:04:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, I just tried to upgrade my system from a Nehalem style era CPU/motherboard (a W series Xeon/P6T-WS) to a Haswell style CPU/motherboard (an E-series Haswell/Z97 motherboard), and I?ve run into some fun issues with my LSI 9240-4i controller. In particular, it?s timing out because of issues noted similar to here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064404.html . I?ve done the following so far to try and diagnose the issue: - Upgraded the firmware on the card and in the BIOS - Tweaked with the PCI-E settings (2.0/3.0; disabled power savings mode in the BIOS; etc) - Turned off 4GB ?remapping? on the PCM. - Booted USB key fob-based images running: 9.3-RELEASE, 10.1-RELEASE, 10-STABLE, 11-CURRENT - Booted my original drive running 9.3-RELEASE - Booted with hw.mfi.msi=0 set in loader. - Booted with boot -v. One more thing to try, is to put the card into PCIe slot handled by the south bridge instead of the CPU slot. I have two Drake Skinnies card which I cannot use, since all my machines are desktop class, and the only available PCIe 8x+ slots are connected to CPU. I was never able to get a satisfactory explanation why the thing does not like CPU' PCIe. Every time I run into MFI send command timeouts that eventually turn into Here?s the message I got (transcribed) with 11-CURRENT with boot -v: mfi0: Drake Skinny port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdfc6-0x?. on pci2 mfi0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported) pci: routing MSI IRQ 264 to local APIC 0 vector 59 mfi0: using IRQ 264 for MSI mfi0: using MSI mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23 mfi0: Frame 0xfe07f719f280 timed out command 0x101 Error 60 in callback from mfi_send_frame The complete screenshot for that timeout can be found here: https://people.freebsd.org/~ngie/mfi-timeout-boot-verbose.jpg What I haven?t done yet: - Exporting the volume with the old motherboard and importing it with the new motherboard (I need to do some reading before I do this though because I don?t want to toast my data by accident :(?). - Booted either Linux or Windows to make sure the controller works with the motherboard - Tried clearing events with the controller Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on this issue? Thanks! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org