Hi, has anyone had trouble with the Perc4e/Di on board RAID controller
where it will not create partitions on any Linux install? I'm not sure
if it is a megaraid driver bug or controller bug. I'm installing on an
old Dell Poweredge 2600 server. At the point it partitions the disk, the
mkfs fails immediately with similar output to this :-
megaraid: aborting-29762 cmd=2a <c=2 t=0 l=0>
megaraid abort: 29762:21[255:128], fw owner
megaraid: aborting-29763 cmd=2a <c=2 t=0 l=0>
megaraid abort: 29763:39[255:128], fw owner
megaraid: aborting-29764 cmd=2a <c=2 t=0 l=0>
megaraid abort: 29764:16[255:128], fw owner
megaraid: aborting-29768 cmd=2a <c=2 t=0 l=0>
megaraid abort: 29768:53[255:128], fw owner
....
megaraid: aborting-29831 cmd=2a <c=2 t=0 l=0>
megaraid abort: 29831:8[255:128], fw owner
megaraid: resetting the host...
megaraid: 64 outstanding commands. Max wait 180 sec
megaraid mbox: Wait for 64 commands to complete:180
megaraid mbox: Wait for 64 commands to complete:175
megaraid mbox counts down to 0, and then...
megaraid mbox: critical hardware error!
megaraid: resetting the host...
megaraid: hw error, cannot reset
megaraid: resetting the host...
megaraid: hw error, cannot reset
SCSI error : <0 2 0 0> return code = 0x6000000
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 242938701
Buffer I/O error on device dm-4, logical block 9893952 lost page write
due to I/O error on dm-4
scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
I've updated the system BIOS and Perc4e/Di firmware (522D) but still the
same. Changing from RAID to SCSI in the bios allows a full install
proving the hardware is fine.
I support an identical server which has run RHEL4 for years without any
problems. My server has a rev 07 device compared to rev 08 on the good one.
02:05.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X
Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08)
02:05.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X
Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08)
03:0b.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID (rev 01)
John.
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