Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:40:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Understanding messages from mly driver under 4.3 release Message-ID: <200108160840.f7G8eJC09012@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:10:45 EDT." <20010815001045.A34154@gta.com>
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> > --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I have recently set up a RAID system built around a 4.3 release box > and a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 Raid controller. I am using the latest driver fro > m: > http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/mylex/mly-20010618.tar.gz > > I am seeing the following messages from the RAID subsystem. Hopefully > somebody can help me understand what these messages are trying to tell > me. I searched the archives without any luck. If these messages have > already been discussed, please let me know and I will do some more > digging. (-; > > Aug 14 23:11:59 saru /kernel: (da1:mly0:1:0:0): error code 0 > Aug 14 23:13:29 saru /kernel: (da2:mly0:1:1:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 This is harmless. CAM is a bit overzealous at reporting this as an error; the driver should probably mask it. > Aug 14 23:47:00 saru /kernel: mly0: physical device 0:3 sense data received > Aug 14 23:47:00 saru /kernel: mly0: sense key 11 asc 47 ascq 00 This is bad; sense key 11 is "ABORTED COMMAND"; I don't know what the asc/ascq values mean. I would be concerned about the disk at ID 3. > Initially the RAID seemed to be performing fine except for the above > messages. I just managed to hang any process that attempts to acess > the RAID. The process table shows the following for the hung processes: I think there may still be some races in the mly driver; I thought the new version in -current was better (you can pull the sources from -current and try them yourself), but at least one test site has reported they are still having trouble. I have not had time to work on this recently; I'd hoped to get it fixed for 4.4, but that's not looking likely right now. Sorry. 8( -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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