Re: 2.6.13.4 aacraid: Partitioning array makes adapter go "dead"

Adrian Bunk
2006-01-07T14:19:35Z

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:45:31PM -0500, Robert Jones wrote:

>...
> Here's some information regarding the machine I'm having the problem with:
> 2-Way Dual-Core AMD Opteron 275's
> 8GB Reg ECC
> Tyan 2882-D (K8SD-Pro) motherboard (AMD-8000 series chipset)
> 2 Seagate ST336754LC's, updated to latest firmware (0004)
> Adaptec 2230S (updated to latest firmware, 8205)
>
> The machine boots wonderfully with any kernel I have tried (2.6.9,
> 2.6.12.9, 2.6.13.4, 2.6.14-rc5; all kernels are vanilla kernels) and
> binds the array to /dev/sda, so long as the array is unpartitioned.
> Here's what the kernel reports when booting:

Is this problem still present in kernel 2.6.15?

> SCSI device sda: 71619584 512-byte hdwr sectors (36669 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: got wrong page
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 71619584 512-byte hdwr sectors (36669 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: got wrong page
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: unknown partition table
> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
>
> -----------
>
> However, once I partition the array things begin to go wrong. While the
> partitioning succeeds, any point after this aacraid will state the
> controller is "dead". Here's what the kernel is telling me at this point:
>
> -----------
>
> SCSI device sda: 71619584 512-byte hdwr sectors (36669 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: got wrong page
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> SCSI device sda: 71619584 512-byte hdwr sectors (36669 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: got wrong page
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
>
> -----------
>
> This looks fine too, however, when I reboot or try to access the array
> directly such as a mke2fs /dev/sda1, the kernel says this:
>
> -----------
>
> aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ?
> aacraid: Host adapter appears dead
> scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0
> id 0 lun 0
> sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x6000000
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 63
> Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
> scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
> Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
> scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
> Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 64
> scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
> Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 64
>
> -----------
>
> The same machine will install Win2K w/ Adaptec's driver just fine, so I
> think the hardware is okay. I went ahead and pulled Adaptec's "official"
> aacraid implementation and replaced the "vanilla" implementation in
> 2.6.9 with it. Unfortunately, this did not seem to help.
>
> Also, if I remove the partitions aacraid is happy again and will bind
> the array into /dev/sda as before. It's only after partitioning do
> things go bad.
>...
> Thanks,
> Robert

cu
Adrian

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