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

[George Kontostanos]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Martin Nilsson <martin at mullet.se> wrote:
> 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.

We are using the SUPERMICRO chassis 847e26-RJbod1
(http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/847/SC847E26-RJBOD1.cfm?parts=SHOW)

I really don't see any vibrations the JBOD is steady and the cabling
has been changed.

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