Re: arcmsr serious issues

[Benjamin Schindler <bschindler@inf.ethz.ch>]

Hi

I used the gentoo-livecd and an installed system (Which I sent the 
.config with)
Both kernels exhibit the very same problem. I'm sorry that the two don't 
mix.

I have dmesg which shows similar behaviour. However, that machine just 
died (Power supply broken - it will take some time until I get it back) 
so I cannot post that data now.

Cheers
Benjamin


Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 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 .
>
>     ... Snipped to show context .
>
>>> Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.07
>
>     ... Snipped to show context .
>
>>> 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
>
>     ... Snipped to show context .
>
>>> # CONFIG_FUSION is not set
>
>     ... Snipped to show context .
>
>         Hth ,  JimL