LSI IOC unkown state

[Malte]

Hey Guys,

i build a new Server for myself. With VMWare ESXi 6.5 as Hypervisor where i can have FreeNas running.

The Components are:
- Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F
- 32GB ECC RAM
- Xeon E3-1230 v6
- Dell H310 (flashed to IT Mode P20.00.07.00)
- 6x 4TB HDD

My Problem now is that VMWare can see the HBA with all my drives, and as soon as i enable passthrought the controller gets passed to the Virtual Machine. Everything looks fine.
As soon as i look on my FreeNas there are no drives at all, the Status on the top right is OK (Green).
When i take a look in the Console window i can see multiple Errors, i alredy googled about them but i was not able to find any solution.

Code:

dmesg | grep mps
mps0: <Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2008> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xfd4f0000-0xfd4fffff,0xfd480000-0xfd4bffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on
pci3																																
mps0: IOC in unknown state 0xf0000000																							   
mps0: Cannot transition IOC to ready																								
mps0: mps_attach failed to transition ready																						 
device_attach: mps0 attach returned 22																							 
mps0: <Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2008> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xfd4f0000-0xfd4fffff,0xfd480000-0xfd4bffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on
pci3																																
mps0: IOC in unknown state 0xf0000000																							   
mps0: Cannot transition IOC to ready																								
mps0: mps_attach failed to transition ready																						 
device_attach: mps0 attach returned 22																							 
pmc: Unknown Intel CPU.																											 
hwpmc: SOFT/16/64/0x67<INT,USR,SYS,REA,WRI>																						 
VMware memory control driver initialized																							
vmx0: link state changed to UP																									 
uhid0: <VMware> on usbus0																										   
uhid1: <VMware> on usbus0																										   
[root@freenas ~]# sas2																											 
sas2flash  sas2ircu																												 
[root@freenas ~]# sas2																											 
sas2flash  sas2ircu																												 
[root@freenas ~]# sas2flash -c 0 -list																							 
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility																								 
Version 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)																									
Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved																		
																																	
		No LSI SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!																   
		ERROR: Command Not allowed without an adapter!																			 
		ERROR: Couldn't Create Command -c																						   
		Exiting Program.																											
[root@freenas ~]# sas2flash -listall																								
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility																								 
Version 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)																									
Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved																		
																																	
		No LSI SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!																   
		ERROR: Command Not allowed without an adapter!																			 
		ERROR: Couldn't Create Command -listall																					 
		Exiting Program.																											

Maybe someone can give me an advice what i should look for.

Thank you a lot.

 

[Malte]

Small update:
I now reflashed the LSI Card again, no changes at all.

Afterwards i tried to install FreeNas 10 onto the Server direct without ESXi and the LSI Controller showed up.
I used UEFI in FreeNas 10, now i was trying to install FreeNas 10 with UEFI onto my ESXi and i cant install it.
Im getting allways the same Error

Code:

ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20160527/tbxfroot-261)
panic: running without device atpic requires a local APIC
cpuid = 0

 

[chemiicaLL]

Malte,

I had this EXACT SAME issue, using ESXi 6.0 passthrough to FreeNAS 9.10. When I initially configured the passthrough, it required the reboot. Everything was working fine for months after the initial reboot. I was able to import ZFS volumes that I created off a bootable FreeNAS USB on the physical hardware using an IBM ServeRAID M1015 crossflashed to 9211 IT mode.

I recently moved causing me to shutdown my server and move it to my new home. When I performed an initial cold boot, the passthrough device would show up in the Advanced tab, but now when I think back on it, I was getting the indication a reboot was required.

After testing the card and drives on a bootable USB FreeNAS, I was able to see all disks and volumes without issue. I put everything back to my initial ESX boot configuration and I finally realized that after a cold boot, I needed to reboot the ESX host again to actually complete the passthrough process of the PCIe card. I'm not sure if this is the same issue you've been running into but I wanted to pass this along to anyone who may be having my problem, because without the reboot after a cold boot to passthrough the card I was getting the same messages on my FreeNAS VM that you were getting. This appears to be obvious/silly to me now, but only using passthrough ever for only this VM I never kept in the back of my mind that this was a thing.

Hope this helps you, or someone in the future!

 

[chemiicaLL]

It is also funny that I found this thread last night, and you just posed it the other day. Crazy.

 

[Malte]

chemiicaLL thanks a lot mate. You saved me hours of trying around.
I just rebooted my ESXi and it worked. Strange issue