Re: mfi timeouts at boot on ASUS Z97 motherboard with LSI 9240-4i

From: Mike Tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:14:53 -0400
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:#%00009                May 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


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