Hello,
Just to say that I'm seeing this bug as well, with smartmontools 5.38
and smartctl 5.39 2009-10-10 r2955 on Debian lenny. The machine is a
Dell PowerEdge 860. I'm guessing that this is either a firmware or
driver issue.
02:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X
Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell SAS 5/iR Adapter RAID Controller
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 1275
I/O ports at ec00 [disabled] [size=256]
Memory at fe9fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at fe9e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [98] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [68] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
Kernel driver in use: mptsas
Kernel modules: mptsas
# modinfo mptsas
filename:
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko
version: 3.04.06
license: GPL
description: Fusion MPT SAS Host driver
author: LSI Corporation
The errors look like this:
428.524463] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff81021b950940)
428.524471] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: ATA command pass through(16): 85 08
0e 00 d5 00 01 00 09 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00
433.199851] mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31140000): Originator={PL},
Code={IO Executed}, SubCode(0x0000)
433.199851] mptsas: ioc0: removing sata device, channel 0, id 0, phy 0
433.199851] port-0:0: mptsas: ioc0: delete port (0)
433.199851] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
433.348856] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=ffff81021b950940)
433.348868] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff81021b950440)
433.348873] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Synchronize Cache(10): 35 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00
433.348885] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=ffff81021b950440)
433.348893] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! (sc=ffff81021b950940)
433.348896] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: ATA command pass through(16): 85 08
0e 00 d5 00 01 00 09 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00
433.605026] mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff81021b950940)
433.605034] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=ffff81021b950940)
433.605037] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: ATA command pass through(16): 85 08
0e 00 d5 00 01 00 09 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00
434.157594] mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff81021b950940)
444.546154] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting host reset! (sc=ffff81021b950940)
444.546162] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery
461.540429] mptscsih: ioc0: host reset: SUCCESS (sc=ffff81021b950940)
461.540437] sd 0:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
461.540440] sd 0:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
461.540475] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 15631039
461.540480] md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0
461.540485] raid1: Disk failure on sda1, disabling device.
and the drives are:
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda ES
Device Model: ST3250620NS
Serial Number: 9QE3L9E0
Firmware Version: 3BKS
and are in JBOD mode (+ sw RAID with md).
lsiutil says:
Current active firmware version is 0.10.51
Firmware image's version is MPTFW-00.10.51.00-IE
LSI Logic
x86 BIOS image's version is MPTBIOS-6.12.05.00 (2007.09.29)
... which is the latest on Dell's download pages for this server.
The kernel is 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 from Debian Lenny (same behaviour
with non-openvz kernel). Running smartd makes the drives disappear
after a few hours, but doing this:
while true ; do smartctl -T permissive -d sat -a /dev/sda > /dev/null &&
echo -n . ; done
seems to knock them out in about a minute.
Subjectively, 5.38 seemed to upset the controller a lot quicker than
5.39 r2955 does. For good measure I'm currently stress-testing a PE1950
with a SAS 6/iR (SAS1068E) in the same way (however this is using RAID
setup through the BIOS).
smartctl 5.39-pre needs '-T permissive' on the PE860, but 5.38 doesn't
seem to require it.
It is worth trying a newer mptsas driver?
Regards,
Tim.
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