From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]" Subject: Re: aic94xx driver woes continued Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:14:47 +0100 Message-ID: <47E2B7A7.20206@ipax.at> References: <47E2B044.70705@ipax.at> <1206039714.3038.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.ipax.at ([80.64.143.40]:55089 "EHLO mail.ipax.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753834AbYCTTOu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:14:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1206039714.3038.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley wrote: > This is all normal. Seagate drives are known for throwing protocol > errors under stress at certain revs of firmware. That's what > REQ_TASK_ABORT, reason=0x6 is. > > Your logs indicate that the recovery occurred correctly (as in all tasks > were eventually retried), so it doesn't show an actual problem. ok, i already filed a trouble ticket at seagate - lets see if they provide a firmware update for the disks. afaik mine is "firmware 0002" >> sometimes even a disk is kicked out of the raid configuration. > > This would be abnormal, if you have a log of this, could you post it. I > assume it was because of I/O errors? i attached a bigger syslog file (.gz format). the errors look like: > syslog.1.gz:Mar 11 06:25:08 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid1: Disk failure on sda1, disabling device. > syslog.1.gz:Mar 11 06:25:01 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sda7, disabling device. > syslog.1.gz:Mar 10 18:13:25 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sda3, disabling device. > syslog.1.gz:Mar 10 18:13:23 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sda9, disabling device. > syslog.1.gz:Mar 10 18:13:23 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sda8, disabling device. > syslog.1.gz:Mar 10 18:13:23 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sda5, disabling device. > syslog.0:Mar 18 18:30:48 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sdd5, disabling device. > syslog.0:Mar 18 18:27:18 db-ipax-164 kernel: raid10: Disk failure on sdd8, disabling device. i will test the device for itself to see if it has errors. cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia@ipax.at Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office@ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________