Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>
>> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped
>> you could jump in and help me :-)
>
> I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off.
> I'm reading your responses as I go before responding so I hopefully
> don't recommend something you've already tried. I'm still researching.
> In the mean time, if you can, go ahead and flash the 9240 with the
> latest firmware, precisely following the instructions.
There were no problems upgrading the fw :-)
Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem.
> Also try the following:
>
> 1. Power the Intel expander with a PSU 4 pin Molex connector instead of
> using a PCIe slot. Molex are the large standard plugs, usually white,
> used to connect hard drives for the past 25 years--two black wires, one
> red, one yellow. With the chassis laying on your desk and the side/top
> cover panel removed, lay the anti-static bag the expander shipped in on
> top of the drive cage frame or PSU, then lay the expander card on its
> back on top of the bag--heat sink facing the ceiling. Make sure it
> doesn't fall off and ground out to the metal chassis or mobo, etc. This
> will eliminate a possible PCIe power bug in the mobo.
Did that but again no improvement.
Over-current messages still present and boot process still not finished
properly.
But the over-current message is always present even with only mb, ram, cpu
and graphics card.
Btw this is a PCIe x1 ATI FireMV 2260 card. With it I have both PCIe x16
for the LSI and Intel cards available.
> 2. With the expander powered directly from the PSU, try the 9240 in
> each x16 slot until one works (I'm assuming you know that you must power
> down the system before inserting/removing cards or you'll very likely
> permanently damage the cards and/or mobo). If no success here...
No success with the hba in either of the two slots. I have also tried to
plug the graphics card to another slot.
And the expander was completely removed for these tests with no SAS cable
connected to the lsi card.
> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options:
>
> Quiet Boot: DISABLED
> Interrupt 19 Capture: DISABLED
> --save/reboot/test--
> PCI Express Port: ENABLED
> PEG Force Gen1: ENABLED
> Detect Non-Compliance Device: ENABLED --save/reboot/
test--
> XHCI Hand-off: ENABLED
> Active State Power Management: ENABLED PCIe (PCI
Express) Max Read
> Request Size: 4096 --save/reboot/test--
None of this worked.
> If none of this works, disable both on board SATA controllers:
>
> Serial-ATA Controller 0: DISABLED
> Serial-ATA Controller 1: DISABLED
>
> and connect all drives to the 9240, and re-enable Interrupt 19
Capture:
> ENABLED
>
> This will allow booting from the 9240. In the 9240 webBIOS, create a
> RAID1 array device of two disks, make it bootable, save and initialize
> the array. Reboot into the Squeeze install disk and install onto the
> RAID1 device. The initialization should continue transparently in the
> background while you're installing Debian. When finished reboot to see
> if the boot hang persists.
I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. But
I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set the
bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me the option is already set - so
it should be ok?
Unfortunately the Debian installer doesn't list the RAID1 storage
device :-?
> Hopefully you won't need to do all of these things as it will be very
> time consuming. I'm attempting to provide you a thorough
> troubleshooting guide that covers most/all the possible/likely causes of
> the hang.
Thank you very much for your help so far :-)
Best regards
Ramon
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