mpt2sas problems? lsi2008 sas controller

[striky]

I recently bought a new file server setup consisting of a SM 846E16 case and a SM X8SI6-F MB (with LSI 2008 SAS controller on board).
I have installed Debian Squeeze (to get the mpt2sas driver), but the system is extremely slow during startup (5 min or so), and I keep getting some mpt2sas related messages in /var/log/messages , including:

Oct 7 20:15:27 farnsworth kernel: [ 728.472554] mpt2sas0: log_info(0x31080000): originator(PL), code(0x0, sub_code(0x0000)

and

Oct 7 22:55:52 farnsworth kernel: [ 2283.542812] mpt2sas0: task abort: SUCCESS scmd(ffff88013cf1a600)
Oct 7 22:56:24 farnsworth kernel: [ 2315.004463] mpt2sas0: attempting task abort! scmd(ffff88013cf1a600)
Oct 7 22:56:24 farnsworth kernel: [ 2315.004468] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 44 6f 68 00 00 08 00
Oct 7 22:56:24 farnsworth kernel: [ 2315.458941] mpt2sas0: task abort: SUCCESS scmd(ffff88013cf1a600)
Oct 7 22:59:14 farnsworth kernel: [ 2484.578758] mpt2sas0: attempting task abort! scmd(ffff88013d6b8100)
Oct 7 22:59:14 farnsworth kernel: [ 2484.578763] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 6c 15 18 00 00 08 00
Oct 7 22:59:14 farnsworth kernel: [ 2485.013338] mpt2sas0: task abort: SUCCESS scmd(ffff88013d6b8100)
Oct 7 22:59:51 farnsworth kernel: [ 2521.471436] mpt2sas0: attempting task abort! scmd(ffff88013f16b500)
Oct 7 22:59:51 farnsworth kernel: [ 2521.471441] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 68 08 00 00 00 08 00
Oct 7 22:59:51 farnsworth kernel: [ 2521.916354] mpt2sas0: task abort: SUCCESS scmd(ffff88013f16b500)


Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[drescherjm]

There was a mptsas kernel bug fixed last week about that. I believe the patch went into 2.6.35

The patch also went into 2.6.32.23.

Edit: You said mpt2sas. They probably are different. Sorry for the noise.

 

[sweloop64]

Any SMART-errors on /dev/sda ?

 

[striky]

I tried Ubuntu 10.10 RC today, which has a newer kernel, but with no luck. Actually, it was even worse, reporting IO errors on boot. Looks like the mpt2sas driver isn't reliable for all hardware yet. I just installed Windows 7 and I have yet to experience any similar problems here.

 

[odditory]

I like the SM X8SI6-F board so far. First thing I did was cross-flashed the SAS chip to the latest firmware you can find at the 9211-8i section of LSI's site. I used the "IT" (target mode) firmware since I wasn't planning on using the integrated RAID0/1 functionality of the chip. Works great with an HP expander and 2 x SFF-8087 uplinks. I happen to be using it with NexentaCore+Napp-It GUI, an OpenSolaris derivative - the SAS2008 chip has been supported for quite a while in it.

Your issues sound O/S driver related but you might try the latest SAS2008 firmware anyway.