Dell 1850/PERC 4e/Si (Megaraid) with "too many retries" error

[Mike Lempriere]

The original post was a year ago, to the day, from when I suddenly 
started seeing the msgs -- what a coincidence!  The machine has been 
running fine for years, there have been no changes to hardware or OS, 
and these just started showing up in the log.  I'm assuming it's a 
hardware problem...

Thanks!

vinifera mikel 0# pciconf -lv | more
hostb0 at pci0:0:0:0:      class=0x060000 card=0x016d1028 chip=0x35908086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'E7520 Server Memory Controller Hub'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = HOST-PCI
pcib1 at pci0:0:2:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x35958086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'E752x Memory Controller Hub PCIe Port A0'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib4 at pci0:0:4:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x35978086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'E752x Memory Controller Hub PCIe Port B0'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib5 at pci0:0:5:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x35988086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'E752x Memory Controller Hub PCIe Port B1'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib8 at pci0:0:6:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x35998086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'E752x Memory Controller Hub PCIe Port C0'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib11 at pci0:0:30:0:     class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x244e8086 
rev=0xc2 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82801 Family (ICH2/3/4/4/5/5/6/7/8/9,63xxESB) Hub 
Interface to PCI Bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
isab0 at pci0:0:31:0:      class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x24d08086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-ISA
atapci0 at pci0:0:31:1:    class=0x01018a card=0x016d1028 chip=0x24db8086 
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) EIDE Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = ATA
pcib2 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x03308086 
rev=0x06 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '80332 [Dobson] I/O processor A-segment Bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib3 at pci0:1:0:2:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x03328086 
rev=0x06 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '80332 [Dobson] I/O processor B-segment Bridge'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
amr0 at pci0:2:14:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x016d1028 chip=0x00131028 
rev=0x06 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Dell Computer Corporation'
    device     = 'PERC 4e/Si and PERC 4e/Di Expandable RAID Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = RAID
pcib6 at pci0:5:0:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x03298086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge A'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib7 at pci0:5:0:2:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x032a8086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge B'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
em0 at pci0:6:7:0: class=0x020000 card=0x016d1028 chip=0x10768086 rev=0x05 
hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82541EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
pcib9 at pci0:8:0:0:       class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x03298086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge A'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
pcib10 at pci0:8:0:2:      class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x032a8086 
rev=0x09 hdr=0x01
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge B'
    class      = bridge
    subclass   = PCI-PCI
vgapci0 at pci0:11:13:0:   class=0x030000 card=0x016d1028 chip=0x51591002 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
    device     = 'RV100 Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA





vinifera mikel 0# uname -a | more
FreeBSD vinifera.vintners.net 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Wed Jan 
14 15:10:30 PST 2009     
root at vinifera.vintners.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:46 -0500, Mike Lempriere wrote:
>   
>> Did anyone ever answer this?  I just started getting this msg yesterday.
>>
>>     
>
>
> No.  I didn't see your original email though.
>
> Any chance you can post a bit more information?  e.g. dmesg output,
> pciconf -lv and uname -a ?
>
> Sean
>
>
>
>
>   

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