Errors with Sun StorageTek STK RAID INT (Adaptec ASR-5805) with EL 8.6 driver?

Errors with Sun StorageTek STK RAID INT (Adaptec ASR-5805) with EL 8.6 driver?

[Tom Spettigue]

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Hey all -

We have an older Sun Microsystems SunFire x4250 server with one of Sun's 
STK RAID INT, a rebadged Adaptec ASR-5805 (Cougar) RAID HBA that takes 
the aacraid driver, and I'm getting all kinds of errors with it in Alma 
Linux 8.6. I have performed hardware tests of both the server's memory 
(it passed a weekend of memtest86+ runs of 24 passes) as well as all 16 
of our Sun-branded HGST 900 GB 10k RPM SAS drives (using Seagate's 
SeaTools Bootable, all 16 passed S.M.A.R.T. checks as well as short and 
long drive self-tests), and all pass with flying colors across multiple 
runs of every test.

I nonetheless am getting all kinds of errors on my Alma Linux 8.6 
install with that dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso driver obtained 
from https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/. I don't know if that's 
the wrong driver or what, but I get basically one session of usable 
Linux, and once I reboot, I get all kinds of errors - see here:

https://imgur.com/a/qt2anw3

/dev/sda is a simple, two-drive RAID-1 array - and I have tested now 
four different drives in that array in varying combinations, and I get 
these errors in all of them. I even swapped out our Sun STK RAID INT 
(Cougar) RAID HBA for another one of the same make/model, and got the 
same errors. Neither the Adaptec RAID BIOS reports any problems with the 
arrays, nor does SeaTools - so I'm increasingly disinclined to believe 
that any of our drives are bad, I'm starting to think this is some kind 
of configuration problem, or some kind of driver problem with the 
dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso aacraid driver that I'm using. :P

Any ideas?

-- 
Tom Spettigue
Staff Engineer
(720) 406-5269
Zonit Structured Solutions
www.zonit.com


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Re: Errors with Sun StorageTek STK RAID INT (Adaptec ASR-5805) with EL 8.6 driver?

[Tom Spettigue]

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Some of the errors I've been getting:

[  899.895139] print_req_error: 75 callbacks suppressed
[  899.895144] blk_update_reqeuest: I/O error, dev sda, sector 136364232 
op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x3000 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
[  899.898353] EXT4-fs warning: 5 callbacks suppressed
[  899.898538] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): 
htree_dirblock_to_tree:984: inode #3409691: lblock 0: comm 
systemd-tmpfile -5 reading directory block

Obviously, I am using EXT4 for our filesystem as opposed to the native 
XFS of RHEL 8-based distros - possible that the driver doesn't play as 
nice with that?


On 10/12/22 12:03, Tom Spettigue wrote:
> Hey all -
>
> We have an older Sun Microsystems SunFire x4250 server with one of 
> Sun's STK RAID INT, a rebadged Adaptec ASR-5805 (Cougar) RAID HBA that 
> takes the aacraid driver, and I'm getting all kinds of errors with it 
> in Alma Linux 8.6. I have performed hardware tests of both the 
> server's memory (it passed a weekend of memtest86+ runs of 24 passes) 
> as well as all 16 of our Sun-branded HGST 900 GB 10k RPM SAS drives 
> (using Seagate's SeaTools Bootable, all 16 passed S.M.A.R.T. checks as 
> well as short and long drive self-tests), and all pass with flying 
> colors across multiple runs of every test.
>
> I nonetheless am getting all kinds of errors on my Alma Linux 8.6 
> install with that dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso driver obtained 
> from https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/. I don't know if that's 
> the wrong driver or what, but I get basically one session of usable 
> Linux, and once I reboot, I get all kinds of errors - see here:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/qt2anw3
>
> /dev/sda is a simple, two-drive RAID-1 array - and I have tested now 
> four different drives in that array in varying combinations, and I get 
> these errors in all of them. I even swapped out our Sun STK RAID INT 
> (Cougar) RAID HBA for another one of the same make/model, and got the 
> same errors. Neither the Adaptec RAID BIOS reports any problems with 
> the arrays, nor does SeaTools - so I'm increasingly disinclined to 
> believe that any of our drives are bad, I'm starting to think this is 
> some kind of configuration problem, or some kind of driver problem 
> with the dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso aacraid driver that I'm 
> using. :P
>
> Any ideas?
>
-- 
Tom Spettigue
Staff Engineer
(720) 406-5269
Zonit Structured Solutions
www.zonit.com


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Errors with Sun StorageTek STK RAID INT (Adaptec ASR-5805) with EL 8.6 driver?

[Tom Spettigue]

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Hey all -

We have an older Sun Microsystems SunFire x4250 server with one of Sun's 
STK RAID INT, a rebadged Adaptec ASR-5805 (Cougar) RAID HBA that takes 
the aacraid driver, and I'm getting all kinds of errors with it in Alma 
Linux 8.6. I have performed hardware tests of both the server's memory 
(it passed a weekend of memtest86+ runs of 24 passes) as well as all 16 
of our Sun-branded HGST 900 GB 10k RPM SAS drives (using Seagate's 
SeaTools Bootable, all 16 passed S.M.A.R.T. checks as well as short and 
long drive self-tests), and all pass with flying colors across multiple 
runs of every test.

I nonetheless am getting all kinds of errors on my Alma Linux 8.6 
install with that dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso driver obtained 
from https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/. I don't know if that's 
the wrong driver or what, but I get basically one session of usable 
Linux, and once I reboot, I get all kinds of errors - see here:

https://imgur.com/a/qt2anw3

/dev/sda is a simple, two-drive RAID-1 array - and I have tested now 
four different drives in that array in varying combinations, and I get 
these errors in all of them. I even swapped out our Sun STK RAID INT 
(Cougar) RAID HBA for another one of the same make/model, and got the 
same errors. Neither the Adaptec RAID BIOS reports any problems with the 
arrays, nor does SeaTools - so I'm increasingly disinclined to believe 
that any of our drives are bad, I'm starting to think this is some kind 
of configuration problem, or some kind of driver problem with the 
dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso aacraid driver that I'm using. :P

Any ideas?

-- 
Tom Spettigue
Staff Engineer
(720) 406-5269
Zonit Structured Solutions
www.zonit.com


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Errors with Sun StorageTek STK RAID INT (Adaptec ASR-5805) with EL 8.6 driver?

[Tom Spettigue]

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Hey all -

We have an older Sun Microsystems SunFire x4250 server with one of Sun's 
STK RAID INT, a rebadged Adaptec ASR-5805 (Cougar) RAID HBA that takes 
the aacraid driver, and I'm getting all kinds of errors with it in Alma 
Linux 8.6. I have performed hardware tests of both the server's memory 
(it passed a weekend of memtest86+ runs of 24 passes) as well as all 16 
of our Sun-branded HGST 900 GB 10k RPM SAS drives (using Seagate's 
SeaTools Bootable, all 16 passed S.M.A.R.T. checks as well as short and 
long drive self-tests), and all pass with flying colors across multiple 
runs of every test.

I nonetheless am getting all kinds of errors on my Alma Linux 8.6 
install with that dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso driver obtained 
from https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/. I don't know if that's 
the wrong driver or what, but I get basically one session of usable 
Linux, and once I reboot, I get all kinds of errors - see here:

https://imgur.com/a/qt2anw3

/dev/sda is a simple, two-drive RAID-1 array - and I have tested now 
four different drives in that array in varying combinations, and I get 
these errors in all of them. I even swapped out our Sun STK RAID INT 
(Cougar) RAID HBA for another one of the same make/model, and got the 
same errors. Neither the Adaptec RAID BIOS reports any problems with the 
arrays, nor does SeaTools - so I'm increasingly disinclined to believe 
that any of our drives are bad, I'm starting to think this is some kind 
of configuration problem, or some kind of driver problem with the 
dd-aacraid-1.2.1-7.el8_6.elrepo.iso aacraid driver that I'm using. :P

Any ideas?

-- 
Tom Spettigue
Staff Engineer
(720) 406-5269
Zonit Structured Solutions
www.zonit.com


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