Re: Promise SX6000 No handler for event (fwd)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
20 May 2003 15:03:12 +0100


On Maw, 2003-05-20 at 15:11, kernel wrote:
> > It sent us two event messages for events we've never head of (or asked
> > for)
> If we never asked for these messages, why did it send them?

Ask the vendor

> >
> >> May 19 13:06:04 production kernel: i2o/iop0: Hardware Failure: Unknown Error
> >
> > and then exploded
> >
> Yep. That's what's happening. Now, how do I defuse it? I *think* I'm setting
> this up just as suggested on this list and various other sources, yet still
> it is a no-go.

Ask the vendor. I've traced one of these with an end user and we didnt
send a single invalid I2O message to it

> NFS-mounted volume from an old, slow, busy server to my RAID. This tells me
> that probably the errors aren't caused by the SX6000 getting floodded by
> incoming data stream and not being able to keep up with it.

That would seem to be a bug in the controller firmware if so. You might
be able to reduce it or mitigate it by reducing the request queue size
we run.

Alan

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