mpt0 error (timedout)

[wr00]

Hello all,

It's been a while since I have had time to tinker around with FreeNAS, but decided to stop back in. Previous I had 9.10 installed on my system, and everything ran fine--spec to follow.

IBM SystemX x3200 M2
4x 2TB WD SATA drives
8GB RAM

Last night, I decided to clean up everything--new drives and boot flash drives--and install FreeNAS 10. Everything went fine on the install to the flash drive, all drives were detected; however, on the first boot cycle I kept getting a mpt0 error. Since the error kept clearing on the plugin load (I will get more information tonight, this happened late last night) I don't have the exact error, but in a nutshell, it is as follows:

mpt0: mpt_recovered timedout resetting connector

I will try to get the exact error this evening.

Anyone have any insight? I know the system is older, but I usually do all of my testing on it before moving to one of my other servers.

Edit: I have attached a picture of the error. There is another flash prior to it displaying, but it goes by too quick to get a picture.

 

[Ericloewe]

Presumably, a drive is failing or something similar is happening.

 

[Ericloewe]

And why are you using an SAS HBA (SAS1, no less) if you only have four drives?

 

[wr00]

Presumably, a drive is failing or something similar is happening.

I am I the process of attempting another install destination drive brand (two of the same brand/model failed). Even after removing all drives, I got the same errors.

And why are you using an SAS HBA (SAS1, no less) if you only have four drives?

That's just how the server was configured when I received it. Probably not the best option. The quick connect of the hot swap trays do make it convenient, though.

 

[wr00]

The problem turned out to be the SanDisk Ultra Fit 64GB flash drives. Not sure why, but it refused to boot from them. I did a fresh install on a PNY 16GB and it loaded without fault.

 

[Ericloewe]

Happens at times. Odd quirks that some devices have.

 

[wr00]

Follow up on this issue:

After I got FreeNAS 10 to boot on a flash drive (or so it appeared to), I put the drives back in and received the same looping mpt0 error. Though, I can't say for certain if it did actually boot correctly without the drives in, as I didn't have any networking hooked up, it defiantly acted different with the drives in. I ended up giving up on the quest for 10 and stepped back to 9.10, which installed flawlessly on the previous flash drives I had problems with.

This is probably more of a hardware compatibility issue more than anything and probably not worth pursuing. This server, although updated to a point, was originally purchased back in 2009--it has a few years. I may consider trying 10 again on my Dell PowerEdge r720xd.