Re: arcmsr serious issues

Mr. James W. Laferriere
2009-06-05T18:18:59Z

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 16:19 +0200, Benjamin Schindler wrote:
>> Hi
>> (I'm not subscribed to this list, so please cc me)
>>
>> I tried to install gentoo linux on a areca ARC-1210 raid controller, but
>> I'm having serious issues. The problem start on more heavy I/O with:
>>
>> arcmsr6: abort device command of scsi id = 0 lun = 0
>>
>> From this point, the system has serious issues. With xfs for example,
>> the following happens:
>>
>> arcmsr6: abort device command of scsi id = 0 lun = 0
>
> This is an abort, likely triggered by a timeout.
>
>> sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
>> driverbyte=DRIVER_TIMEOUT,SUGGEST_OK
>
> This looks very suggestive, nothing in the arcmsr ... or indeed any
> driver ever sets DRIVER_TIMEOUT ... it looks like a mangled result code
> somehow. It definitely lead to the resulting failure.
>
> Cc:ing Areca people to see if they have any idea.
>
> James

I am QUITE sure the .config as shown did not create the kernel messages
as shown . One does have to enable the 'CONFIG_FUSION' in order to use it .

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>> Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.07

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>> Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation
>> sda1 sda2
>> sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
>> sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
>> scsi 6:0:16:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 3
>> Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.07
>> Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.04.07
>> Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.07

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>> # CONFIG_FUSION is not set

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Hth , JimL
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