Re: MVSAS 1669:mvs_abort_task:rc= 5

["Thomas Fjellstrom" <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>]

On Fri October 9 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to get an AOC-SASLP-MV8 card (pcie x4 2 port SAS card) to
> work with linux for the past month or so. I've recently just RMAed my first
> card, and tested the new one under linux, and I see the same problems.
> 
> The very first time I made a new array off the controller, formated (with
>  xfs) and mounted the volume, it seemed to work. ioozone even seemed to run
>  for a while. Sadly after a few minutes I got a stream of mvs_abort_task
>  messages in dmesg, and any accesses to the volume, or any disks connected
>  to the controller lock up.
> 
> After that I updated my 2.6.31 kernel to 2.6.32-rc3-git2 off of kernel.org,
> and the volume fails to mount with the same mvs_abort_task messages.
> 
> I've attached my dmesg log from both attempts. dmesg1 is the first attempt,
> dmesg2 is the second attempt on the newer kernel.
> 
> I would really appreciate some help with this.
> 

I should also mention that if I attempt to remove any of the drives while the 
card is in a hung state, the entire machine locks up with the keyboard LEDs 
blinking.

This does seem to be a rather serious error.

If there is more I can do to help track down the problems, please let me know. 
I really need to get this to work (my current array is FULL, and may be 
showing signs of failure) as soon as possible.

I can pretty much wipe and reinstall everything at any point on this machine, 
update/install new kernels, etc. I just don't have a null modem cable atm to 
hook up a serial console to capture the errors on OOPSes.

Thanks.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@shaw.ca