From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 21:15:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A07A1065673; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2BD8FC25; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:15:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.local ([192.168.254.200]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n0MLFkFK054146; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:15:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4978E202.70408@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:15:46 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Polyack References: <4978CDE3.4040700@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4978CDE3.4040700@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amr driver issues in 7.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:15:53 -0000 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