Re: mpt2sas logged messages

[Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>]

On 08/18/2009 01:02 PM, Moore, Eric wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:13 AM,  James Bottomley wrote:
>>> The code (0x12) means PL_LOGINFO_CODE_ABORT
>>> The sub_code(0x102) means
>> PL_LOGINFO_SUB_CODE_OPEN_FAILURE_PATHWAY_BLOCKED
>>
>> To translate this according to the SAS 1.1 specification, a
>> pathway open
>> failed because a timeout fired before the path could be established.
>>
>> You can mitigate this by increasing the expander partial
>> pathway timeout
>> value. (or just move to a more efficient configuration).
>>
>
> I was telling Ric it was something else in seperate email.  The pathway was blocked due to two initiors establishing a connection to single port. That woudl be the case if he wasn't using a sata multiplexor.
>
>
> anyways, if the pathway timeout is the issue, then I believe you can set the pathway timeout value using Dougs smp tools, smp_phy_control , setting the --pptv command line option.
>
> http://sg.danny.cz/sg/smp_utils.html

Thanks, I will give that a try,

ric