Tim, Can you try doing the same test upgrading our driver to 3.04.13? You can find relevant patches at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fjejb%2Fscsi-misc-2.6.git&a=search&h=993340e8ab4e856bf0fc7818cdca1a92f6e8ed38&st=commit&s=kashyap Thanks, Kashyap -----Original Message----- From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Small Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:48 PM To: smartmontools-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Linux-PowerEdge@xxxxxxxx Cc: Gabor Gombas Subject: Apparent MPT ata pass-through bug SAS1068 and SAS1068E - WAS SMART causes disks to go offline on an LSI SAS1068 controller - Dell SAS 5/iR Hello, On a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Debian 5.0 amd64 system (2.6.26-2-amd64), which includes one of these: 01:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08) Subsystem: Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated RAID Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 1270 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at fc5fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at fc5e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fc600000 [disabled] [size=1M] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [98] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+ Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?> Kernel driver in use: mptsas Kernel modules: mptsas filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko version: 3.04.06 license: GPL description: Fusion MPT SAS Host driver author: LSI Corporation .. and a couple of WesternDigitial SATA drives, I ran the following command: while true ; do smartctl -a /dev/sg0 > /dev/null ; done After approx 45 minutes this happened: kernel: [5060492.926757] mptctldrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @602 - Controller disabled. ... and all the attached block devices were no-longer available. The machine also runs mpt-status. Regards, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- 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
