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

[George Kontostanos]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:15 PM, George Kontostanos
<gkontos.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It appears that the error messages don't display anymore in FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE

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