Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:15:46 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> Cc: Mike Tancsa <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amr driver issues in 7.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <4978E202.70408@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4978CDE3.4040700@comcast.net> References: <4978CDE3.4040700@comcast.net>
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Steve Polyack wrote: > We have multiple systems using LSILogic PERC4 cards (PERC4e/Si, > PERC4/DC, amr driver). After recently upgrading two of them from 6.3 to > 7.1, we have begun to see the following errors in our logs during heavy > use in both systems: > amr0: Too many retries on command 0xffffffff80a4da58. Controller is > likely dead > amr0: Too many retries on command 0xffffffff80a4eaa8. Controller is > likely dead > amr0: Too many retries on command 0xffffffff80a497a0. Controller is > likely dead > amr0: Too many retries on command 0xffffffff80a4eaa8. Controller is > likely dead > > However, the system continues working and the volumes remain > accessible. This happens on the PERC4/DC controllers in both systems. > Firmware version is 352D. MegaCLI reports no problems. > > Has anyone else seen these messages? A google search turns up nothing > but results in the driver code. Is this something we should be worried > about? We won't be moving any other systems to 7.1 until we can clear > this up. > The fix for this that I was thinking of is already in 7.1. There might still be a driver bug, but I'm leaning more towards the controller simply being busy. Do you have a reproducible test case that I could try? Scott
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