Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423025AbWJYIqU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:46:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423059AbWJYIqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:46:19 -0400 Received: from ns.virtuo.it ([88.149.128.9]:17561 "EHLO agnus.ngi.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423025AbWJYIqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:46:19 -0400 Message-ID: <453F2454.1000707@webster.it> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:46:12 +0200 From: "David N. Welton" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bdurrett@slick.ORG CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: megaraid_sas waiting for command and then offline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2046 Lines: 65 Hi, I found someone corresponding to your name writing about a problem with the megaraid sas driver/hardware on the LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/6/12 We have a Dell (2950, running 2.6.18 #1 SMP) as well, and the way I managed to kill the thing dead in its tracks (symptoms basically what you you describe) is with smartctl: root@salgari:~# smartctl --all /dev/sda smartctl version 5.34 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: DELL PERC 5/i Version: 1.00 Device type: disk Local Time is: Wed Oct 25 10:14:40 2006 CEST Device does not support SMART Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging ---- [61101.681857] sd 0:2:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [61101.681944] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #7553069 contains a hole at offset 0 [61103.944794] sd 0:2:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [61103.944879] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #7553069 contains a hole at offset 0 [61104.672212] sd 0:2:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [61104.672295] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #7553069 contains a hole at offset 0 [61105.255981] sd 0:2:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [61105.256066] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #7553069 contains a hole at offset 0 ---- Dead in the water. We suspect that in any case there are some disk problems, which is why we were trying to use smartctl in the first place. I was just curious if you managed to figure anything out... Thanks, Dave Welton -- Webster srl Sede legale: Via del Seminario, 3 35122 Padova Sede operativa: Via S. Breda, 28 35010 Limena (PD) Tel. +39 049 8842188 Email: d.welton@webster.it Visita www.webster.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/