From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Desai, Kashyap" Subject: RE: Apparent MPT ata pass-through bug SAS1068 and SAS1068E - WAS SMART causes disks to go offline on an LSI SAS1068 controller - Dell SAS 5/iR Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:58:26 +0530 Message-ID: <0D1E8821739E724A86F4D16902CE275C1C93A02A34@inbmail01.lsi.com> References: <20090914142939.GE14072@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <4AE72E40.2000903@seoss.co.uk> <4AE8448C.6070709@seoss.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.77]:45570 "EHLO na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752995AbZJ1N3Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:29:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4AE8448C.6070709@seoss.co.uk> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Small , "smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Gabor Gombas Tim, Can you try doing the same test upgrading our driver to 3.04.13? You can find relevant patches at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fjejb%2Fscsi-misc-2.6.git&a=search&h=993340e8ab4e856bf0fc7818cdca1a92f6e8ed38&st=commit&s=kashyap Thanks, Kashyap -----Original Message----- From: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Tim Small Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:48 PM To: smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com Cc: Gabor Gombas Subject: Apparent MPT ata pass-through bug SAS1068 and SAS1068E - WAS SMART causes disks to go offline on an LSI SAS1068 controller - Dell SAS 5/iR Hello, On a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Debian 5.0 amd64 system (2.6.26-2-amd64), which includes one of these: 01:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08) Subsystem: Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated RAID Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 1270 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at fc5fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at fc5e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fc600000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [98] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+ Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: mptsas Kernel modules: mptsas filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko version: 3.04.06 license: GPL description: Fusion MPT SAS Host driver author: LSI Corporation .. and a couple of WesternDigitial SATA drives, I ran the following command: while true ; do smartctl -a /dev/sg0 > /dev/null ; done After approx 45 minutes this happened: kernel: [5060492.926757] mptctldrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @602 - Controller disabled. ... and all the attached block devices were no-longer available. The machine also runs mpt-status. Regards, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html