On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Bond Masuda wrote:

> What is the configuration? What type of drives are you using?
>
> If you are not using Dell certified drives, I know some Western Digital
> consumer drives will exhibit this type of behavior; where the drive will go
> offline, but upon reboot is working perfectly fine. This is the result of
> not having TLER enabled in the WD consumer drive.

I'd heard this suggested before, but I'd like to hope it wasn't true.  I don't
see why this wouldn't just result in the controller marking the disk as bad
and offlining the physical device, rather than the controller having a fit and
offlining the virtual device.

In my case the machine was running with a diskless root, so I could forcibly
unmount all partitions, unload the mptsas driver, and reload it.  It would not
reload successfully failing with ioc errors.

jh

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