On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 13:12 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Hi, > > recently I asked about problems to expect with >2TB devices and the answer > of Douglas made me hope we won't get any problems this time. > Unfortunately, we get I/O errors on accessing the device. > > The unit is called transtec PV610S, which is actually an Infortrend EonStor > A16U-G2421-1 device. > > Presently its running in test mode on our failover system with attached to a > MPT scsi controller, after thouroughly tested it is supposed to become our > main storage device on our primary server with an AIC79XX controller. > > Without any knowledge about the scsi protocol and its error numbers it looks > like the device is claiming to have more sectors than it actually has, > doesn't it? > > [17179724.816000] Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.07 > [17179724.816000] Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation > [17179724.832000] Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.07 > [17179724.840000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, > low) -> IRQ 19 > [17179724.840000] mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup > [17179725.312000] ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} > [17179725.800000] scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01030600h, Ports=1, > MaxQ=255, IRQ=19 > [17179726.064000] Vendor: Transtec Model: PV610S16R1B Rev: 347G > [17179726.064000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI > revision: 05 > [17179726.084000] sda : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). > [17179726.084000] SCSI device sda: 12691101696 512-byte hdwr sectors > (6497844 MB) > [17179726.088000] sda: Write Protect is off > [17179726.088000] sda: Mode Sense: 9b 00 00 08 > [17179726.088000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > [17179726.100000] sda : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). > [17179726.100000] SCSI device sda: 12691101696 512-byte hdwr sectors > (6497844 MB) > [17179726.100000] sda: Write Protect is off > [17179726.100000] sda: Mode Sense: 9b 00 00 08 > [17179726.100000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > [17179726.100000] sda:<6>sd 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0xb0000 > [17179726.132000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 12691101688 This is definitely a fusion driver error: it's DID_SOFT_ERROR, which that driver returns for a variety of firmware related conditions or transfer underruns. I've cc'd the fusion people to see if they can help you diagnose it further. James > [17179726.132000] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 1586387711 > [17179726.136000] sd 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0xb0000 > [17179726.136000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 12691101688 > [17179726.136000] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 1586387711 > [17179726.136000] Alternate GPT is invalid, using primary GPT. > [17179726.136000] > [17179726.136000] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sda > [17179726.160000] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 > [17179729.412000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.1[B] -> GSI 25 (level, > low) -> IRQ 20 > [17179729.660000] mptbase: Initiating ioc1 bringup > [17179730.132000] ioc1: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} > [17179730.620000] scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01030600h, Ports=1, > MaxQ=255, IRQ=20 > /10 > > Now using parted to set a proper partition table, parted will complain about > an I/O error and dmesg shows the messages below. > > [17179939.464000] sd 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0xb0000 > [17179939.464000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 12691101688 > [17180107.112000] sd 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0xb0000 > [17180107.116000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 12691101688 > > > Any help is appriciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Bernd > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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