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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Prakash, Sathya" <Sathya.Prakash@lsi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange mptbase / mptscsih kernel messages
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:58:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260806050658r3fb8b3b2gaf486c2647271e69@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5AE055B67BB5764693E2900C7E3699BE0110FAEB@pamail.ad.lsil.com>

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Prakash, Sathya <Sathya.Prakash@lsi.com> wrote:
> The meaning of 1 message is some fram transmit error encountered by
> hardware and the I/O request is aborted by firmware because of the
> error,
> The second message indicates, some I/O got timed out and the SML tries
> to abort the request and the firmware completes the I/O before aborting
> that. Hence returns IO executed message and the driver completes the
> abort as success.
> Suspecting some bad hardware in the topology(cables?)

Hello Sathya,

It took some time before I could have a closer look at the system on
which I observed the strange kernel messages. Apparently the RAID
controller (LSISAS3081E ?) is not connected directly to the 16 disks
but via a SAS expander (Super Micro SC836 SAS Backplane with two LSI
SASX28 Expander Chips --
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/836/SC836E2-R800.cfm).
It will be a challenge to find out which component triggered the
kernel messages and how to make the storage subsystem work perfectly.
Any hint is welcome.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-08  8:33 Strange mptbase / mptscsih kernel messages Prakash, Sathya
2008-06-05 13:58 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
     [not found] <e2e108260805072336p6b29f11o287ac3c5cab9295a@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-08  8:27 ` Andrew Morton

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