On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 14:31 -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:54:48PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:43:57PM -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
> > > I'm working on the HP Smart Array SCSI driver (hpsa) and I'm seeing the
> > > following failures:
> > >
> > > hpsa1: <0x3230> at PCI 0000:02:00.0 IRQ 76 using DAC
> > > scsi4 : hpsa
> > > scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access HP LOGICAL VOLUME 5.20 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> > > sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
> > > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] READ CAPACITY(16) failed
> > > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
> > > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense not available.
> > > hpsa: cp ffff8800cf400000 has check condition: unknown type: Sense: 0x5,
> > > ASC: 0x20, ASCQ: 0x0, Returning result: 0x2, cmd=[a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10
> > > 00]
> >
> > > The READ CAPACITY failures are what I'm concerned about. I can't seem to track
> > > down why that's failing.
> > > I've tried printing out the_result from sd but it's not printing out. I'm
> > > assuming that anytime I load the driver it goes thru sd.
> > >
> > > if (the_result) {
> > > sense_valid = scsi_sense_valid(&sshdr);
> > > if (sense_valid &&
> > > sshdr.sense_key == ILLEGAL_REQUEST &&
> > > (sshdr.asc == 0x20 || sshdr.asc == 0x24) &&
> > > sshdr.ascq == 0x00)
> > > /* Invalid Command Operation Code or
> > > * Invalid Field in CDB, just retry
> > > * silently with RC10 */
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > > }
> > > retries--;
> > > } while (the_result && retries);
> > > printk(KERN_WARNING "sd-mfm: the_result = %d\n", the_result);
> >
> > Probably the device you're testing against doesn't support RC16, which
> > is fine. But for some reason, we're not getting valid sense data back
> > from the device. Now, there's two responses to this that seem rational
> > to me:
> >
> > - In sd.c, if the drive has returned no/invalid sense data, try RC10
> > silently, just like the 0x20 / 0x24 ASC case.
> > - Find out why this drive doesn't report valid sense data when attached
> > to hpsa. I assume it does report valid sense data when attached to
> > some other scsi card?
>
> Me again,
> The controllers do support RC16. After some more work it looks like RC16 is
> never getting to the driver. I'm snooping the CDB's of all requests as well
> as the completions from the driver and I never see a 0x9e. I do see the
> RC10 (0x25) though, so I think my debug is right.
>
> Why would I never the see the command in the driver?
Because your devices are reporting compliance to a standard before RC16
was implemented (we have a check in sd_try_rc16_first() to see if you
comply to higher than SBC-2). Then, after you've failed this, if you
don't return the conventional 0xffffffff to RC10, we never retry with
RC16.
James
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