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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m at my wits end trying to resolve this. We are running
centos 4.5 on Intel hardware. Dual SCSI disk drives mirrored on an LSI Logic
controller.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Every once in a while and not always on the same server and
not only on the local SCSI Drives.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>System A – Dual internal drives on /dev/sda<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>System B – Dual internal drives on /dev/sdc with a DAS on
/dev/sda.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Each of these systems experienced a kernel mptbase error and
placed /dev/sda into read only mode. Note again the /dev/sda isn’t always
local.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For system A – remounting in ro mode didn’t work and the
system had to be rebooted. File system check and bad block checks showed
nothing and when the system was rebooted – it was fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A portion of the messages log is below. I would appreciate
any ideas or directions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Steve Moccio<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 01:00:06
sshd(pam_unix)[18336]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:00:36
kernel: mptscsi: ioc1: attempting task abort! (sc=f6f07c80)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7
09:00:36 kernel: scsi1 : destination target 0, lun 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:00:36
kernel: command = Write (10) 00
00 00 fb d7 00 01 90 00 <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:00:38
kernel: mptbase: Initiating ioc1 recovery<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:00:44
kernel: drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c@1985::mptctl_do_mpt_command - Busy with
IOC Reset <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:19
last message repeated 10 times<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:40
last message repeated 7 times<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - Diagnostic reset FAILED! (102h)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptbase: ioc1 NOT READY WARNING!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptbase: WARNING - (-1) Cannot recover ioc1<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptscsi: ioc1: Issue of TaskMgmt failed!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptscsi: ioc1: task abort: FAILED (sc=f6f07c80)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptscsi: ioc1: attempting bus reset! (sc=f6f07c80)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7
09:01:41 kernel: scsi1 : destination target 0, lun 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: command = Write (10) 00
00 00 fb d7 00 01 90 00 <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:41
kernel: mptbase: Initiating ioc1 recovery<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:46
kernel: mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - Doorbell ACK timeout (count=4999),
IntStatus=80000000!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:01:47
kernel: drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c@1985::mptctl_do_mpt_command - Busy with
IOC Reset <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:23
last message repeated 10 times<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:44
last message repeated 7 times<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:47
kernel: mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - Diagnostic reset FAILED! (102h)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:47
kernel: mptbase: ioc1 NOT READY WARNING!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:47
kernel: mptbase: WARNING - (-1) Cannot recover ioc1<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:47
kernel: mptscsi: ioc1: bus reset: FAILED (sc=f6f07c80)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:48
kernel: mptscsi: ioc1: Attempting host reset! (sc=f6f07c80)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:48
kernel: mptbase: Initiating ioc1 recovery<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:51
kernel: drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c@1985::mptctl_do_mpt_command - Busy with
IOC Reset <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:51
kernel: drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c@1985::mptctl_do_mpt_command - Busy with
IOC Reset <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:53
kernel: mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - Doorbell ACK timeout (count=4999),
IntStatus=80000000!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:02:58
kernel: drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c@1985::mptctl_do_mpt_command - Busy with
IOC Reset <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:03:34
last message repeated 10 times<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:03:48
last message repeated 5 times<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:03:54
kernel: mptbase: ioc1: ERROR - Diagnostic reset FAILED! (102h)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:03:54
kernel: mptbase: ioc1 NOT READY WARNING!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:03:54
kernel: mptbase: WARNING - (-1) Cannot recover ioc1<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 face=System><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:System;font-weight:bold'>Aug 7 09:03:54
kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 1 channel
0 id 0 lun 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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