mfi "unexpected sense" when using mfip/smartctl

Kevin Day kevin at your.org
Tue Oct 12 21:34:41 UTC 2010


Hey, SCSI people!

I'm trying to use smartctl (from smartmontools) with an mfi card. I can kldload mfip, and use smartctl to access SMART data on the member drives fine. The problem is that each time I do so, I get:

mfi0: 13501 (340232122s/0x0002/info) - Unexpected sense: PD 05(e0x04/s0) Path 50030480006deec4, CDB: 85 06 2c 00 da 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00, Sense: c/6d/00

I'm assuming this shows up because the RAID controller isn't expecting the reply to the command that smartctl is sending behind it's back.

If so, this is pretty harmless, but it looks very very similar to what happens when there's a serious problem with a drive. Is there a way this could be muted, or is this indicating that something is actually not working right? 

-- Kevin



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