[indiana-discuss] changes in the ata driver between builds 111b and 117?

[Michael Schuster]

the attachment somehow didn't make it, but it can be seen here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/servlet/JiveServlet/download/79-108992-401020-12157/CRW_2230.JPG

michael
On 28.07.09 22:24, Michael Schuster wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to ask this:
> 
> on my private no-name PC (Asus P5N73AM MB, Nvidia Graphics, internal 
> sata disk, external USB disk), I've been seeing hangs and panics during 
> boot since I upgraded from 111b to 117, this behaviour persists on 118.
> I saw a few panic messages which looked like I/O to me, but I have not 
> managed to capture a dump; I managed to get a screen shot of a hang 
> during boot of 118 just a few minutes ago (see attachment).
> 
> (I see complaints about two disks:
> " /pci at 0..../ide at 1 (ata3):
> timeout:reset bus ..."
> and
> "/pci at 0....ide@1/cmdk at 0.0 (Disk0):
> Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational
> Sense Key: aborted command")
> 
> when I reboot to 111b and look at fmdump -e, I see a list like this:
> 
> Jul 28 19:56:51.4645 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
> Jul 28 21:47:41.8053 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
> Jul 28 21:49:05.4363 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
> Jul 28 22:00:34.6571 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
> Jul 28 22:01:57.8560 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
> 
> and an example of the output of fmdump -evV looks like this:
> 
> Jul 28 2009 19:56:51.464542428 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
> nvlist version: 0
>         class = ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.uderr
>         ena = 0x1f4b22bbb200001
>         detector = (embedded nvlist)
>         nvlist version: 0
>                 version = 0x0
>                 scheme = dev
>                 device-path = /pci at 0,0/pci1043,82ae at 4,1/storage at 4/disk at 0,0
>         (end detector)
> 
>         driver-assessment = fail
>         op-code = 0x1a
>         cdb = 0x1a 0x0 0x8 0x0 0x18 0x0
>         pkt-reason = 0x0
>         pkt-state = 0x1f
>         pkt-stats = 0x0
>         stat-code = 0x0
>         un-decode-info = sd_get_write_cache_enabled: Mode Sense caching 
> page code mismatch 48
> 
>         un-decode-value =
>         __ttl = 0x1
>         __tod = 0x4a6fba73 0x1bb05adc
> 
> In order to see whether the disk (or more precisely, the partition I've 
> assigned to opensolaris) has any difficulties, I tried filling it up 
> with "cat bigfile > anotherbigfile" in a loop until the pool was almost 
> completely full, and got no errors (all this running 111b).
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
> 
> tia
> Michael
> 
> 
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