Re: 3ware driver errors

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>]

Adam,

They also need to upgrade the firmware on the WD drives.  There's a known problem with WD drives and 3Ware.  

Jeff

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:44:23PM -0800, Adam Radford wrote:
> This is fixed in driver 1.02.00.032, the scsi layer is looping on sense key
> 'aborted command' after you lost power to a jbod drive, and not checking the
> ASC 
> which is 0x04 (Logical Unit Not Ready).  If you want to fix it by hand in
> your
> driver before .032 comes out, in 3w-xxxx.h, change:
> 
> {0x37, 0x0b, 0x04, 0x00},
> 
> to:
> 
> {0x37, 0x02, 0x04, 0x00}
> 
> This will return sense key 'Not Ready', and you will will not infinitely
> loop.
> If I were you, I would jiggle the power cables on that box and replace flaky
> ones.
> 
> -Adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Pritchard [mailto:steve@silug.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:28 PM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: 3ware driver errors
> 
> 
> (Apparently 3w-xxxx in the Subject gets caught as spam.  Somebody
> might want to adjust that regular expression.  :-)
> 
> I have a server that is locking up every day or two with a console
> full of this error:
> 
>     3w-xxxx: scsi0: Command failed: status = 0xcb, flags = 0x37, unit #0.
> 
> This is on a Dell PowerEdge 1400SC (dual PIII/1.13GHz, 1.1GB RAM),
> with a 3ware Escalade 7000-2 and two WD1600JB drives, running Red Hat
> 8.0 with kernel-smp 2.4.18-27.8.0.
> 
> I plan to report this to Red Hat's bugzilla, but I'm hoping for some
> ideas or big red flags to jump out at somebody here...  I use this box
> for a UML hosting server, so all this downtime is affecting *way* too
> many people.
> 
> This box has been having other stability problems, so I'm guessing
> this might not be directly related to the 3ware card/driver.  It did
> survive a memtest86 pass.
> 
> Steve
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