mfi(4) endless loop kernel output on attach

John Baldwin
2009-10-15T13:33:00Z

On Thursday 15 October 2009 5:51:19 am pluknet wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is 7.2-R. Seen on IBM x3650M2.
>
> During the boot I get those endless looping kernel messages while on
> mfi(4) attach phase.
> It's getting more odd since 7.2 booted and worked fine on exactly this
> server model
> months ago (on different box though).. Any hints?

We just had some boxes die like this (but spewing a different loop of messages
on boot related to continuously scheduling patrol reads and consistency
checks that finished immediately) at work.  We fixed them by swapping out the
controller.  We might try stick them in a different box and reflashing them
using mfiutil(8) to see if it's some sort of corrupted state that flashing
the adapter fixes.

In your case it looks lik the firmware keeps crashing and restarting.

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John Baldwin