From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abhijit Paithankar Subject: Re: LSISAS1068 ioerr_cnt 0x1 on clean boot up Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:51:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20081009005126.GA7954@akamai.com> References: <20081007014608.GA28229@apaithan-desktop.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com> <6A4D764DC1BDE14495DA8DC60A3D69531E967A073C@hkgmail01.lsi.com> <20081007233700.GA6439@apaithan-desktop.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com> <48EC9105.2070604@interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from prod-mail-xrelay02.akamai.com ([72.246.2.14]:59180 "EHLO prod-mail-xrelay02.akamai.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752534AbYJIBAD (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:00:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48EC9105.2070604@interlog.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: "Prakash, Sathya" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Moore, Eric" * Douglas Gilbert (dgilbert@interlog.com) wrote: > > IMO it is not an error for the host to receive such UAs just > after power up, and soon thereafter. It is potentially an error > to have such UAs while a partition on a LU within a target is > mounted. But the SCSI subsystem is not aware of mounts. Perhaps > there should be a separate counter (i.e. other than ioerr_cnt) for > UAs associated with hard resets. If a hard reset is part of routine initialization at power-on, then it is not an error and the MPT driver should not tell the scsi mid-layer that an error happened. Thanks! Abhijit