It could be any number of factors that contribute to it showing up all
the sudden. 

There are a few things I would look at first:
1) Has load dramatically changed? This could cause extra bus resets.
2) Are you running the latest firmware on your PERC card?
3) Are you running the latest firmware on your enclosure?
4) Are you running the latest firmware on your disk drive?


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave
Ewart
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:03 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: SCSI messages - should I be worried?

On Wednesday, 29.07.2009 at 08:37 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

> Sense Key / Code / Qualifier / Reason
> 6 / 29 / 02       SCSI BUS RESET OCCURRED - Perfectly normal
occurance.
> The bus gets reset if a device returns an unexpected answer or there 
> are arbitration problems, nothing to worry about. It happens.
> 6 / 29 / CD           This one is vendor specific, but 6 / 29 means
> device reset as well. This probably indicates that the card tried 
> talking to the device before it finished it's reset. Again nothing to 
> worry about.
> 2 / 04 / 01           Logical unit in process of becoming ready - This
> can happen during power on or after a reset. Again expected, nothing 
> wrong with the disk.

Thanks for the reply, Patrick: much appreciated.

> I don't see anything that would bother me here. If you start seeing 
> Sense key's of 1, 3, or 4 then you may have problems, but the RAID 
> card should flag the disk as bad long before that happens.

Understood.

> Sense codes happen in the SCSI realm all the time and 90% of the time 
> are nothing to worry about.

My concern is really the fact that we've been running this PowerVault
for six months without *any* SCSI sense messages being logged at all -
even if they are considered normal - then suddenly two days' ago we
started getting them by the bucket load.

This is the real issue, I guess.  Does the fact that this behaviour has
suddenly begun - and always relating to the same physical disk - not
suggest that there may be something wrong here?  Either with the disk,
or with the enclosure slot relating to it?

Dave.

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