On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 01:08 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2009-07-31T14:40:23, Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2009-07-29T17:04:27, Robert Hancock wrote: > > > On 07/29/2009 02:07 PM, Allan Wind wrote: > > >> On 2009-07-29T13:43:06, Robert Hancock wrote: > > >>> On 07/27/2009 12:03 AM, Allan Wind wrote: > > >>>> I have a pair of Western Digital RE4-GP (WD2002FYPS) in RAID1 configuration > > >>>> using Linux 2.6.30.3 and seeing the following: > > >>>> > > >>>> [ 4907.485324] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3907028974 > > >>> Are there no error messages before this point? Can you post the full > > >>> dmesg output from bootup? > > >> > > >> Thanks for looking into this, Robert. I do not see any relevant error > > >> message before this point, but made the entire 82k dmesg available here: > > >> http://lifeintegrity.com/~allan/dmesg > > > > > > It seems like some request failed but apparently that mptsas driver > > > isn't dumping out what happened for some reason. There are some of those > > > "recovered error" indications but they're not near the I/O error report, > > > so I'm not sure what's going on. CCing linux-scsi. > > > > Is there any data I can help with to advance this issue? > > The above complains about sector 3907028974 which is exactly > 19566 sectors greater than the size of the raid array according > to parted. In other words it appears to be an access to the last > sector of the array. If it's a read beyond the end of a partition, then it's possible it got rejected in the partition checking logic before ever reaching the I/O controller (which would explain why no messages from the fusion in the log). However, I don't think the analysis is correct. Parted says > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 34s 19565s 19532s bios_grub > 2 19566s 3907029134s 3907009569s ext3 raid So the absolute sector number 3907028974 is within partition 2. I still think something went wrong in block. Even if the fusion failed to spit an error, the SCSI layer is usually quite chatty about failures. To get a simple error in the log with no explanation usually tends to indicate that it occurred in the block layer. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html