mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED

Rainer Sabelka sabelka at iue.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Dec 6 17:58:12 CST 2007 

I have issues with a SAS5/iR controller on a PE 860 server which look similar 
to what has been reported here: 
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-September/033144.html
(Although, I don't get any call traces in my kernel messages like the original 
poster).
Every few days I find some nasty messages in the syslog (see below). The 
system seems to be effectively unresponsive during this time (sometimes other 
programs report timeouts during the mpt messages).

I'm running debian etch with the latest kernel update and the standard debian 
mpt driver (not the driver from the Dell repository).

server2 ~ # uname -a
Linux server2 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

I've updated the firmware of the Controller to the latest version available 
from Dell (00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00).
I have two ST3250620NS disks in a raid1 configuration.

Like the poster mentioned above, I also started to get these mptscsih messages 
after I installed omsa 5.2 (from ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa).

Has somebody an idea what is going on here?

-Rainer

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Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dbbd9d40)
Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6d 95 43 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dbbd9d40)
Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dbbd9340)
Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:06:52 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6d 9b b3 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:07:03 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dbbd9340)
Dec  6 22:07:03 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=d46c30c0)
Dec  6 22:07:03 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:07:03 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6e 8d 73 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:07:13 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=d46c30c0)
Dec  6 22:07:13 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=d46c3700)
Dec  6 22:07:13 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:07:13 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6f 4e db 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:07:23 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=d46c3700)
Dec  6 22:07:23 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=d46c3840)
Dec  6 22:07:23 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:07:23 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 76 6e 6b 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:07:33 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=d46c3840)
Dec  6 22:07:33 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=d5510ac0)
Dec  6 22:07:33 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:07:33 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 76 72 93 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:07:44 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=d5510ac0)
Dec  6 22:07:44 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=d5510e80)
Dec  6 22:07:44 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:07:44 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 7e ba 4b 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:07:54 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=d5510e80)
Dec  6 22:07:54 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dbbd9c00)
Dec  6 22:07:54 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:07:54 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6e 0c ab 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:08:04 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dbbd9c00)
Dec  6 22:08:04 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dfca7800)
Dec  6 22:08:04 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:08:04 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 76 94 83 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:08:14 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dfca7800)
Dec  6 22:08:14 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dc108d00)
Dec  6 22:08:14 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:08:14 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 7d 10 fb 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:08:25 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dc108d00)
Dec  6 22:08:25 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dc108440)
Dec  6 22:08:25 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:08:25 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 53 cb 8b 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:08:35 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dc108440)
Dec  6 22:08:35 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dc108580)
Dec  6 22:08:35 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:08:35 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 53 cd b3 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:08:45 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dc108580)
Dec  6 22:08:45 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dbbd9ac0)
Dec  6 22:08:45 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:08:45 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 55 12 2b 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:08:55 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dbbd9ac0)
Dec  6 22:08:55 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=d55105c0)
Dec  6 22:08:55 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:08:55 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 55 47 93 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:09:05 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=d55105c0)
Dec  6 22:09:05 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dfca7080)
Dec  6 22:09:05 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:09:05 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6c 99 db 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:09:16 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dfca7080)
Dec  6 22:09:16 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! 
(sc=dc1081c0)
Dec  6 22:09:16 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:09:16 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 7d b7 63 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:09:22 server2 kernel: mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
Dec  6 22:09:22 server2 kernel: mptbase: ioc0: WARNING - IOC is in FAULT 
state!!!
Dec  6 22:09:22 server2 kernel: FAULT code = 1600h
Dec  6 22:09:38 server2 kernel: mptbase: ioc0: Recovered from IOC FAULT
Dec  6 22:09:39 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED 
(sc=dc1081c0)
Dec  6 22:09:39 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! 
(sc=dbbd9d40)
Dec  6 22:09:39 server2 kernel: sd 0:1:0:0:
Dec  6 22:09:39 server2 kernel: command: Write(10): 2a 00 12 6d 95 43 00 00 08 
00
Dec  6 22:09:39 server2 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS 
(sc=dbbd9d40)

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