From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: Apparent MPT ata pass-through bug SAS1068 and SAS1068E - WAS SMART causes disks to go offline on an LSI SAS1068 controller - Dell SAS 5/iR Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:56:51 +0000 Message-ID: <4AE877D3.4040300@seoss.co.uk> References: <20090914142939.GE14072@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <4AE72E40.2000903@seoss.co.uk> <4AE8448C.6070709@seoss.co.uk> <0D1E8821739E724A86F4D16902CE275C1C93A02A34@inbmail01.lsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay1.allsecurenet.com ([63.246.152.102]:38342 "EHLO relay1.allsecurenet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754658AbZJ1Q5I (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:57:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <0D1E8821739E724A86F4D16902CE275C1C93A02A34@inbmail01.lsi.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Desai, Kashyap" Cc: "smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com" , Gabor Gombas Desai, Kashyap wrote: > Can you try doing the same test upgrading our driver to 3.04.13? > You can find relevant patches at > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fjejb%2Fscsi-misc-2.6.git&a=search&h=993340e8ab4e856bf0fc7818cdca1a92f6e8ed38&st=commit&s=kashyap > Have just compiled a kernel package from James' tree directly, rather than attempting to back-port and manually patch, so I'm now running 2.6.32-rc4 with mptsas 3.04.13. I'm running the smartctl -a in a loop at the moment and will leave it running over-night, but with this kernel I get a pair of messages like this: [ 1045.130560] scsi 2:0:0:0: [sg1] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor] [ 1045.145751] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): [ 1045.158107] 72 01 00 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 1045.171010] 00 4f 00 c2 00 50 [ 1045.178585] scsi 2:0:0:0: [sg1] Add. Sense: ATA pass through information available [ 1045.280318] scsi 2:0:0:0: [sg1] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor] [ 1045.284311] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): [ 1045.284311] 72 01 00 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 1045.284311] 00 4f 00 c2 00 50 [ 1045.284311] scsi 2:0:0:0: [sg1] Add. Sense: ATA pass through information available for every 'smartctl -a /dev/sg1' command which is run. Cheers, Tim.