Data corruption with the mfi(4) driver

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francois Tigeot" <ftigeot at wolfpond.org>


> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:24:21PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>> 
>> The key thing to determine here are precise factors of the corruption your
>> seeing as it looks like there is some mixing up of issues
> 
> My original mail was intended as a head's up notice; I don't have enough
> information to fill in every detail and point to a particular root cause so
> far.
> 
>> Given this could you confirm:-
>> 1. Hardware
>> 1.1. LSI card / generation
> 
> Dell Rx20 server generation
> 
> I have personally seen the issue on a Dell R720xd with a LSI Dell Perc H710
> adapter. PCI Id:
> mfi0 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x1f341028 chip=0x005b1000 rev=0x05
> hdr=0x00 but have had private reports from at least two different machines
> having the same problem.

Perc H710 is 2208 based.

> All other parameters are variable.

They may be variable but need a point of reference, so detailing the examples
is key.

    Regards
    Steve