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

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 0:49, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 7, 2015, at 19:35, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_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