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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jpbc81$moh$1...@dough.gmane.org