HBA lsi 9240 8i flashed to IT 19 getting driver mismatch

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stephensl24

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Hi just just bought, flashed and installed a LSI megaraid 9240-8i. Flashed it to 9211 in IT mode. Flash went fine i flashed to version 19 as reports on here by @cyberjock and others says its not the best idea to go to 20 yet but now on freenas 9.10 stable i get drives mismatch error do i need to reflash it to 20 or wait till 20 is stable ?

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Version 20 is the currently preferred version.
 

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P20 has been stable, and the recommended version, for about a year now. Before that, it was P16. P19 has never been the recommended version.
 

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Hi just just bought, flashed and installed a LSI megaraid 9240-8i. Flashed it to 9211 in IT mode. Flash went fine i flashed to version 19 as reports on here by @cyberjock and others says its not the best idea to go to 20 yet but now on freenas 9.10 stable i get drives mismatch error do i need to reflash it to 20 or wait till 20 is stable ?

if you need any more info just shout

Thanks

There was some drama about subrevisions of firmware 20. No one suggests using 19 as a workaround; the options are to stick with an older FreeNAS and P16 if need be, or upgrade to the correct 20.00.04 and current FreeNAS.

Some of us have held back gear at 16 to see how the 20 drama resolves itself, which it seems to have for at least ~6 months or so now.

P20 has been stable, and the recommended version, for about a year now.

Since the jump to P20 only happened late last summer, that's ... not /quite/ right.
 

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The change to P20 came with 9.3.1. Wasn't that released late June?

I don't recall exactly, but the point is that for awhile after that change was made, things were quite rocky because there were some people who had upgraded to 20.00.02.00 or 20.00.00.00 and this was causing some of them severe problems. I believe other people continue to have problems such as the apparent dropping of support for SATA 1.5Gbps (SATA I) in all versions of 20.*.

As is my general tendency, I like to let others discover the faults in software, firmware, and hardware rather than just trusting blindly that things will be fine. As a result, since our P16 stuff was running fine and there was no pressing reason to upgrade, and since there had been some Significant Issues with the P20 stuff, I placed a six month delay on upgrade plans back in October. That recently expired and yet because I've got too much to do (am lazy) I still haven't gotten around to it. :smile:

To me, there's a lot of value in running known-good versions of things because I already have enough engineering fires to deal with. That's one of the reasons we avoided SAS 12Gbps for FreeNAS on our last round of FreeNAS boxes; the ~millions of hours on LSI3008 pales next to the ~billions of hours on LSI2008/2308 on P16/P20. I *just* *this* *week* finally killed off our last two ESXi 4.1 hypervisors in the office cluster in favor of a particular version of 5.5 in order to avoid another dependency hell.
 

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OK, eight months. Still most of a year, but not as long as I'd remembered. Thanks for the correction.

Yeah, but nowhere near 8 months stable... I'm pretty sure the whole 20.00.04.00 thing's been figured out for at least six months with the only significant caveat being the SATA 1.5Gbps thing, but of course six months ago there wasn't great confidence in that being the correct answer.

Upgrading firmware sucks. :smile:
 

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Yeah, but nowhere near 8 months stable... I'm pretty sure the whole 20.00.04.00 thing's been figured out for at least six months with the only significant caveat being the SATA 1.5Gbps thing, but of course six months ago there wasn't great confidence in that being the correct answer.

Upgrading firmware sucks. :)
In IT selective pressures tend to favor pessimists.
 

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In IT selective pressures tend to favor pessimists.
Since you are an IT long lifer, you would then be considered "highly favored" ??? :D
 

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Since you are an IT long lifer, you would then be considered "highly favored" ??? :D
Or just lucky so far. :) The ancient Greeks seemed to consider good luck to be essential to the happy life / prosperity (eudaimonia). Unfortunately, even for the luckiest of us our luck eventually runs out.

Of course, if a person truly wanted eudaimonia he'd use BSD because it is the best daemoned.
 
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20.00.04.00 was released in August 2015
20.00.06.00 was released in December 2015
20.00.07.00 was released in February 2016

I'd consider 20.00.06.00+ stable. Fixes in 20.00.07.00 are only related to IR mode.
 

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20.00.04.00 was released in August 2015
20.00.06.00 was released in December 2015
20.00.07.00 was released in February 2016

I'd consider 20.00.06.00+ stable. Fixes in 20.00.07.00 are only related to IR mode.

That's nice, but since 20.00.04.00 is what's known to work with FreeNAS, that may be a better choice until there's been some testing done on the newer versions.
 

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Given LSI's somewhat... optimistic expectations of cross-compatibility between the various firmware and driver versions, you'll forgive us if we don't jump at the opportunity to endorse these new P20 versions.

That said, the SATA 1.5Gb/s issue could use fixing, but they should just release a damned P21 that is stable and properly tested, instead of a rapid-fire sequence of point point releases - that's just poor software release practice.
 
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