Strange errors with LSI 9207-8e (LSI SAS2308)

[Martin Nilsson]

On 2013-02-18 18:44, George Kontostanos wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
>
> We are using  FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE with 11 drives WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0
> (RED 3 TB)  in a RAIDz3 connected to an LSI 9207-8e controller with
> bios 7.29.00.00 and firmware 15.00.00.00 on a X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD
> SuperMicro board. The board has an on board controller LSI SAS2308
> which is running the same firmware and bios.
>
> As soon as we start transferring data to the pool we get the following errors:
>
> 31072 SMID 281 terminated ioc 804b scsi 0 state c xfer 0
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a
> 0 1 54 5a 88 0 1 0 0 length 131072 SMID 407 terminated ioc 804b scsi 0
> state c xfer 0
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a
> 0 1 54 59 88 0 1 0 0 length 131072 SMID 238 terminated ioc 804b scsi 0
> state c xfer 0
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a
> 0 1 54 58 88 0 1 0 0 length 131072 SMID 331 terminated ioc 804b scsi 0
> state c xfer 0
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a
> 0 1 54 57 88 0 1 0 0 length 131072 SMID 443 terminated ioc 804b scsi 0
> state c xfer 0
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a
> 0 1 54 54 a0 0 1 0 0
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
> Feb 17 14:59:25 DLCH010 kernel: (da1:mps0:0:15:0): SCSI sense: UNIT
> ATTENTION asc:29,0 (Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred)
>
> The errors keep going and going for all drives not just da2. We
> compiled the latest LSI driver (15) but the errors did not stop:
>
>
Sounds a lot like bad cabling or vibrations in the JBOD chassis.
What kind of chassis do you use for the drives connected to the -8e card?

WD Red drives does not have RAFF and should not be used in a chassis 
with more than four drives.

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