DRAC4 - kernel crash

[Claudio De Luca]

Hi

i had the same problem on all my RHEL4 servers, u need to update the 
firmware to latest version and add this on grub.conf "rhgb quiet hdf=scsi 
nous"

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet hdf=scsi 
nous

Regards
Claudio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miroslav Jany" <mj at svsbb.sk>
To: <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:47 AM
Subject: DRAC4 - kernel crash


> Hello all!
>
> Yesterday we encountered a problem on our PowerEdge 2850 server.
> We think this might be related with the DRAC card. After looking
> at the kernel logfile at the time crash began, we've found this
> message:
>
> Jun 24 10:44:15 xxxx kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
>
> Then the logfile is filled with about ~218,417 lines of these
> self-repeating messages:
>
> Jun 24 10:44:15 xxxx kernel: hdf: status error: status=0x7f {
> DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplet
> e DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
> Jun 24 10:44:15 xxxx kernel: hdf: status error: error=0x7f {
> IllegalLengthIndication EndOfMedia
> AbortedCommand MediaChangeRequested LastFailedSense=0x07 }
> Jun 24 10:44:15 xxxx kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Jun 24 10:44:15 xxxx kernel: hdf: drive not ready for command
> Jun 24 10:44:15 xxxx kernel: hdf: ATAPI reset complete
>
> After a while, the machine was dead and this is the last log
> recorded before we had to reboot the server because the root
> filesystem was remounted read-only:
>
> Jun 24 10:44:27 xxxx kernel: hdf: drive not ready for command
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: irq 18: nobody cared (try booting with
> the "irqpoll" option)
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel:
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: Call Trace: <IRQ>
> <ffffffff80152ee8>{__report_bad_irq+48} <ffffffff
> 80153128>{note_interrupt+499}
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: <ffffffff80152a07>{__do_IRQ+237}
> <ffffffff8011033e>{do_IRQ+69}
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: <ffffffff8010def4>{ret_from_intr+0}
> <EOI>
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: handlers:
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: [<ffffffff80243d7e>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x1f8)
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: [<ffffffff8802f14c>]
> (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x58 [usbcore])
> Jun 24 10:44:29 xxxx kernel: Disabling IRQ #18
> Jun 24 10:44:41 xxxx kernel: drbd0: Primary/Secondary -->
> Secondary/Secondary
> Jun 24 10:44:42 xxxx kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using
> uhci_hcd and address 3
> Jun 24 10:44:42 xxxx kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell
> DRAC4] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
> Jun 24 10:44:42 xxxx kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Dell DRAC4]
> on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
> Jun 24 10:44:44 xxxx kernel: drbd0: Secondary/Secondary -->
> Secondary/Primary
>
> We couldn't find out what's going on here, especially what could
> be the cause of "resetting" the /dev/hdf device, probably causing
> the server to crash.
>
> It is running CentOS 4 with 2.6.13.4 kernel. DRBD version is
> 0.7.4. The /dev/hdf device is a VIRTUALCDROM device and the firmware
> version of the DRAC controller is 1.35 (Build 09.27).
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!
>
> -Mirek
>
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