decoding mpt driver messages

[Charles Sprickman]

Howdy,

Can anyone step through this series of messages from a Dell/LSI RAID card 
for me?  Since there's no management access from within the OS and the 
server is remote, I'd like to know if this is truly a drive failure or if 
it's like the old Adaptec cards that would just sometimes "lose" a drive.

>From dmesg:

mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 
0xfe9fc000-0xfe9fffff,0xfe9e0000-0xfe9effff irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci2
mpt0: [ITHREAD]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.13.0
mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 )
mpt0: 1 Active Volume (2 Max)
mpt0: 2 Hidden Drive Members (10 Max)
...
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings ( Hot-Plug-Spares High-Priority-ReSync )
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Using Spare Pool: 0
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 2 Members:
       (mpt0:1:32:0): Primary Online
       (mpt0:1:1:0): Secondary Online
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 - Optimal
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Status ( Enabled )
(mpt0:vol0:1): Physical (mpt0:0:1:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:0:0)
(mpt0:vol0:1): Online
(mpt0:vol0:0): Physical (mpt0:0:32:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:1:0)
(mpt0:vol0:0): Online

And then the errors:

mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: request 0xc69d8150:19976 timed out for ccb 0xc6a47c00 (req->ccb 
0xc6a47c00)
mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xc69d8150:19976 function 0
mpt0: mpt_recover_commands: IOC Status 0x4a. Resetting controller.
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x40
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x40
mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xc69d8150:19976
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Volume Status Changed
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x15
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x21
(mpt0:vol0:1): Physical Disk Status Changed
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 - Degraded
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Status ( Enabled )
(mpt0:vol0:1): No longer configured

Also is there any way to talk to the drive with smartmontools?  Any way to 
get a serial number off the drive to check warranty status before I visit 
the machine?

Thanks,

C

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