Re: aic94xx driver woes continued

["Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]" <r.bhatia@ipax.at>]

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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
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