On 09/13/2011 01:38 PM, Williams, Dan J wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a 2-way Sandybridge server with an 'Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller'. >> The driver makes a boatload of dmesg noise with non-unique messages >> distinguished only by the event code. For example, I've got 296 of these in >> dmesg: >> >> (NULL device *): sci_phy_event_handler:735: PHY starting substate machine >> received unexpected event_code b3402000 >> >> In an effort to discover which of the 9 places from which this message was >> emitted I added a line number. >> >> The next step is to decide if all of these really need to be dev_warn(). > > Can you describe your storage layout? I'd like to move these to > dev_dbg() but I want to verify that the reports are benign. > Its a couple of 500GB Western Digital SATA drives (I think) in SAS bays. Not sure what the boot drive is. See attached dmesg. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com