Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:42:46 +0100 From: VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> To: "Scott Long" <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET Message-ID: <2cd0a0da0811130642uef30dc3i1b6b5c87a96b3838@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <491C30D9.7060503@samsco.org> References: <2cd0a0da0811120701r7c57bd6btf7640440dbb11035@mail.gmail.com> <1226503559.27892.177.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> <2cd0a0da0811121039m1f05643eh939ed4fd8f6f076d@mail.gmail.com> <1226519743.27892.193.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com> <2cd0a0da0811130049q2debb60esb12f47b2aa514409@mail.gmail.com> <2cd0a0da0811130429s2dff46cam5b2bd0c214eed56a@mail.gmail.com> <20081113124104.GA21617@icarus.home.lan> <2cd0a0da0811130516j57ed688ar2e549a7b00d1d217@mail.gmail.com> <20081113132328.GA22474@icarus.home.lan> <491C30D9.7060503@samsco.org>
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Thanks guys... I have forwarded the comments from Scott to the Dell and hope
for the best....
Thank you again.....
VJ
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
> The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of
> 0x35/0x05. Looking this up in the ASC table found at t10.org gives
> the following:
>
> 35h/05h ENCLOSURE SERVICES CHECKSUM ERROR
>
> What this basically means is that the disk enclosure that you're using
> has some sort of an unknown defect or failure. It has nothing to do with
> the OS. Dell needs to send you a new enclosure, plain and simple.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
>>
>>> I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide
>>> support
>>> for FreeBSD based systems [?]
>>> Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List...
>>>
>>
>> I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver. He should
>> be able to explain what the error messages mean.
>>
>> Scott, check out the URL below.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it
>>>>> controller problem or disk?
>>>>>
>>>> SCSI normally reports 3 things when it encounters an error (particularly
>>>> disk errors): Sense Key (SK), Additional Sense Code (ASC), and
>>>> Additional Sense Code Qualifier (ASCQ).
>>>>
>>>> What appears in the below screenshot is a large amount of sense data,
>>>> but I can't make heads or tails out of it, because it's written in a
>>>> driver-centric manner ("Encl PD" means nothing to me). I can read part
>>>> of the CDB data, but it doesn't tell me much. Scott Long might know.
>>>>
>>>> http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/20081023_server3_screen_dump.png
>>>>
>>>> You should try asking the system manufacturer if they know what any
>>>> of the data means.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
--
Thanks!
BR / vj
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