Megasas error messages

[Robert Goley]

The kernel and driver information is listed below.  It was all I could get 
from the /var/log/messages file.  There is nothing written to the hard 
disk/RAID array after the system gets the first warning/error message.  The 
first message is that the system is waiting for an IO operation to complete.  
After it stops waiting, it reports that it can not perform the IO 
operation(rejecting IO to offline device is the exact error.  It then reports 
a "ext3_find_entry error".   I have reproduced this by extracting a S tar 
gzipped archive.  Extracted the archive is about 7 GB.  It never finishes the 
extract process.  The filesystem is a 100+ GB ext3 filesystem.  Here are the 
kernel and driver versions.

Robert

Nov  5 04:21:04 debian kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-5-amd64 (Debian 
2.6.18.dfsg.1-13) (dannf at debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061
115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu May 31 23:51:05 UTC 2007


Nov  5 04:21:04 debian kernel: megasas: 00.00.03.01 Sun May 14 22:49:52 PDT 
2006


On Friday 02 November 2007 19:22, Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:36 -0400, Robert Goley wrote:
> > I am getting waiting for command to finish messages on the console.  It
> > is repeating the line every 5 seconds and increments the waiting time by
> > 5
>
> Obviously a PERC5 problem.
>
> Can you provide details on your platform (OS Vendor), revision, the
> output of dmesg(1)?  That way we can tell you if its the driver version,
> the PERC5 firmware, or something else...
>
>
> Also check /var/log/message from before the previous reboot once that
> happens, to see if anything made it into the log files and was committed
> to disk before the crash.
>
> ~BAS
>
> > seconds each time it prints.  The machine is basically frozen or paused
> > waiting on some message from the RAID controller.  The machine is a 2970
> > with the PERD 5 integrated raid controller.  There are 4 15,000 RPM 2.5
> > inch disks in a RAID 5 array.  There is another similar 2970 in the field
> > that has displayed similar messages before.  It is running Debian 4.0
> > (Etch) 64 bit with the default 2.6.18 kernel.  Is anyone else
> > experiencing similar errors with the 2970 servers?
> >
> > Robert
> >
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