mpt0: reply length does not match message length: got 0x38, expected 0x3c

[Matthew Jacob]

This only happens on the GET IOC FACTS command.

The reply for this has changed over the years. Newer structures have
more data. Older f/w has less data. You're right that it's harmless.

On 8/12/06, Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a dual LSI 929 Fibrechannel adapter running in 6.1 pretty
> successfully. However, I'm seeing some messages on boot that I can't
> explain, and google doesn't seem to think anyone else has seen this
> either.
>
> mpt0: <LSILogic FC929 FC Adapter> port 0xde00-0xdeff mem
> 0xfcfc0000-0xfcfcffff,0xfcfb0000-0xfcfbffff irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci3
> mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> mpt0: reply length does not match message length: got 0x38, expected
> 0x3c
> mpt0: MPI Version=1.1.0.0
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0xa.
> mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-1 )
> mpt0: 0 Active Volumes (1 Max)
> mpt0: 0 Hidden Drive Members (0 Max)
> mpt0: mpt_read_cfg_header: Config Info Status 22
> mpt1: <LSILogic FC929 FC Adapter> port 0xdf00-0xdfff mem
> 0xfcfe0000-0xfcfeffff,0xfcfd0000-0xfcfdffff irq 26 at device 2.1 on pci3
> mpt1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> mpt1: reply length does not match message length: got 0x38, expected
> 0x3c
> mpt1: MPI Version=1.1.0.0
> mpt1: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0xa.
> mpt1: Capabilities: ( RAID-1 )
> mpt1: 0 Active Volumes (1 Max)
> mpt1: 0 Hidden Drive Members (0 Max)
> mpt1: mpt_read_cfg_header: Config Info Status 22
>
> Anyone more familiar with the mpt driver know if that "reply length"
> or "Unhandled Event" message is harmless or not?
>
>
> It otherwise seems to work:
>
> da1 at mpt1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da1: <APPLE Xserve RAID 1.50> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> da1: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da1: 1060176MB (2171240448 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 135153C)
> da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <APPLE Xserve RAID 1.50> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> da0: 100.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled
> da0: 1060176MB (2171240448 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 135153C)
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=128k count=10000
> 10000+0 records in
> 10000+0 records out
> 1310720000 bytes transferred in 10.582999 secs (123851472 bytes/sec)
>
>
>
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