On Monday 14 July 2008, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > 226 means CT_ERROR, a generic response to the CT_FLUSH_CACHE command > to the controller when the action could not be performed. > > The action is to flush all the controller's cache to the targets in > response to a SCSI SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE command. I expect that you are > running with a degraded array, or incompatible drives? It's in "Optimal" state and I have no idea which drives are "incompatible". Is this list published somewhere (I was looking at 3405 download section at adaptec.com)? # ./arcconf64 getconfig 1 al Controllers found: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Controller information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Controller Status : Optimal Channel description : SAS/SATA Controller Model : Adaptec 3405 Controller Serial Number : 8C0210064E7 Temperature : 46 C/ 114 F (Normal) Installed memory : 128 MB Copyback : Disabled Background consistency check : Disabled Automatic Failover : Enabled Global task priority : High Defunct disk drive count : 0 Logical devices/Failed/Degraded : 1/0/0 -------------------------------------------------------- Controller Version Information -------------------------------------------------------- BIOS : 5.2-0 (15728) Firmware : 5.2-0 (15728) Driver : 1.1-5 (2449) Boot Flash : 5.2-0 (15728) -------------------------------------------------------- Controller Battery Information -------------------------------------------------------- Status : Optimal Over temperature : No Capacity remaining : 99 percent Time remaining (at current draw) : 3 days, 1 hours, 11 minutes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Logical device information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Logical device number 0 Logical device name : RAID RAID level : 10 Status of logical device : Optimal Size : 571392 MB Stripe-unit size : 256 KB Read-cache mode : Enabled Write-cache mode : Enabled (write-back) Write-cache setting : Enabled (write-back) when protected by battery Partitioned : Yes Protected by Hot-Spare : No Bootable : Yes Failed stripes : No -------------------------------------------------------- Logical device segment information -------------------------------------------------------- Group 0, Segment 0 : Present (0,0) 3LM4DRD200009842S4XD Group 0, Segment 1 : Present (0,1) 3LM4DRDZ00009842RNGC Group 1, Segment 0 : Present (0,2) 3LM4DS0P00009808RMV7 Group 1, Segment 1 : Present (0,3) 3LM48ABH00009842SXEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Device information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Device #0 Device is a Hard drive State : Online Supported : Yes Transfer Speed : SAS 3.0 Gb/s Reported Channel,Device : 0,0 Reported Location : Enclosure 0, Slot 0 Reported ESD : 2,0 Vendor : SEAGATE Model : ST3300655SS Firmware : 0002 Serial number : 3LM4DRD200009842S4XD World-wide name : 5000C5000A4B3558 Size : 286102 MB Write Cache : Enabled (write-back) FRU : None S.M.A.R.T. : No Device #1 Device is a Hard drive State : Online Supported : Yes Transfer Speed : SAS 3.0 Gb/s Reported Channel,Device : 0,1 Reported Location : Enclosure 0, Slot 1 Reported ESD : 2,0 Vendor : SEAGATE Model : ST3300655SS Firmware : 0002 Serial number : 3LM4DRDZ00009842RNGC World-wide name : 5000C5000A4B3800 Size : 286102 MB Write Cache : Enabled (write-back) FRU : None S.M.A.R.T. : No Device #2 Device is a Hard drive State : Online Supported : Yes Transfer Speed : SAS 3.0 Gb/s Reported Channel,Device : 0,2 Reported Location : Enclosure 0, Slot 2 Reported ESD : 2,0 Vendor : SEAGATE Model : ST3300655SS Firmware : 0002 Serial number : 3LM4DS0P00009808RMV7 World-wide name : 5000C5000A4B3074 Size : 286102 MB Write Cache : Enabled (write-back) FRU : None S.M.A.R.T. : No Device #3 Device is a Hard drive State : Online Supported : Yes Transfer Speed : SAS 3.0 Gb/s Reported Channel,Device : 0,3 Reported Location : Enclosure 0, Slot 3 Reported ESD : 2,0 Vendor : SEAGATE Model : ST3300655SS Firmware : 0002 Serial number : 3LM48ABH00009842SXEE World-wide name : 5000C5000A4B39B4 Size : 286102 MB Write Cache : Enabled (write-back) FRU : None S.M.A.R.T. : No Device #4 Device is an Enclosure services device Reported Channel,Device : 2,0 Enclosure ID : 0 Type : SES2 Vendor : ADAPTEC Model : Virtual SGPIO 0 Firmware : 0001 Status of Enclosure services device Temperature : Normal Command completed successfully. > > Make sure your drive and controller firmware is as up-to-date as > possible. Controller firmware is up to date. Disks firmware is 002 according to arcconf, unfortunately seagate doesn't seem to publish firmware on their site, so I don't know if it's old or new. > > Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn > > On Jul 14, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running 2.6.24.3 kernel and I'm getting few error messages > > comming from > > aacraid driver. Hardware is adaptec 3405 running firmware 15728 + 4 > > SAS 300GB > > harddisks configured in single raid10 array. > > > > [167674.161866] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [168977.738031] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [172180.752140] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [177494.855145] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [189594.477223] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [191411.881236] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [217130.596663] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > [219236.032362] synchronize_callback: synchronize failed, status = 226 > > > > What does 226 mean and what does it indicate (serious problem?) ? > > > > ps. would be good if prefix was added to these messages to know > > where these > > come from > > -- > > Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team > > arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- 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