Keith Baker wrote: > I've been having a hang with 2.6.16.22 and the megasas driver. I'm pretty > sure it has to do with a smartctl -a <logical drive>. The SCSI layer gets > all sorts of in a twist. Keith, Could you add '-r ioctl,3' to the smartctl command line to get a full debug output. Then we can see which SCSI commands the megasas driver or hardware doesn't like. > megasas: waiting for 2 commands to complete > - repeats a bunch of times then - > sd 0:2:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device > > Given a bit of wisdom in a driver distributed by dell which mentioned the > controller not responding to a cache inqury... isn't the correct thing to > do respond with some sort of unsupported response? not just ignore the > query? Correct. I'm sure the vendor knows what should be done. > I've hunted around for patches around this problem but haven't found any, > of course "don't use smart against a logical drive" works, but I'm not the > only one using these boxes and it does cause the system to go down. Doug Gilbert - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
