I'm seeing the strangest thing with my M1015/LSI card. I'm getting regular DID_BAD_TARGET errors in the kernel log for a drive that was erroneously detected. Inital detection looks like: [ 0.860853] megasas: 06.806.08.00-rc1 [ 0.860877] megasas: 0x1000:0x0073:0x1014:0x03b1: bus 1:slot 0:func 0 [ 0.861172] megasas: FW now in Ready state [ 0.861796] libata version 3.00 loaded. [ 0.907832] megasas_init_mfi: fw_support_ieee=67108864 [ 0.907902] megasas: INIT adapter done [ 0.955875] megaraid_sas 0000:01:00.0: Controller type: iMR [ 0.955990] scsi host0: LSI SAS based MegaRAID driver [ 0.959560] scsi 0:0:9:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3000DM001-1CH1 CC29 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 0.964976] scsi 0:0:10:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3000DM001-1CH1 CC29 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 0.970747] scsi 0:0:11:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3000DM001-1CH1 CC29 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 0.975890] scsi 0:0:13:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68E 0A82 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 0.981458] scsi 0:0:15:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3000DM001-1ER1 CC25 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 0.987097] scsi 0:0:16:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68E 0A82 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Then after a while, the following appears: [ 2545.701262] scsi 0:0:14:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD30EFRX-68E 0A82 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Note, this drive is a duplicate of either 0:0:13:0, or 0:0:16:0, there are only two WD Reds in this system. Two of the ports on the card are unpopulated. Then I see some errors some time later: [ 7113.505094] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 7113.506044] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 [ 7113.506967] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdi, sector 0 [ 7113.508415] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 7113.509330] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 01 5d 50 a3 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 [ 7113.510252] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdi, sector 5860532992 [ 7113.511567] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 7113.512522] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] CDB: Read(16) 88 00 00 00 00 01 5d 50 a3 a0 00 00 00 08 00 00 [ 7113.513487] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdi, sector 5860533152 [ 7113.515208] sd 0:0:14:0: [sdi] Synchronizing SCSI cache This keeps happening over and over. Attempting to `smartctl -a` on sdi fails with "no such device", and sdi does not currently appear in /dev This machine is currently running a 4.0.2-1 kernel from debian sid. What exactly can cause this, and how can I fix it? -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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