[rescue] E5000 disk issue

Dan Williams williams.dan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 16:26:30 CST 2005


On 24/11/05, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed an issue with my e5K. I rebooted yesterday (I rarely
> reboot this box since you can do a lot dynamically) and none of my
> zones were coming up. So I checked and the disk on which I have zones
> was not mounted.
>
> Ok, not a problem, I issue a mount and start my zones. Didn't think
> too much of it at the time.
>
> This morning I was loading a database on a different drive (that the
> database zone has access to) and noticed how slow it was.
>
> iostat showed 1100Kw/s and %b 96 to 100!
>
> Isn't that kind of slow for the SCSI on the IOBoard to a ST130 with 10
> K rpm U320 drives (I know it only does u160 but still). Digging in
> dmesg I see:
>
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000 scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] fas:  4.0: cdb=[ 0x12 0x0
> 0x0
> 0x0 0x30 0x0 ]
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas
> @3,8800000 (fas0):
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000   Connected command timeout for Target 4.0
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas
> @3,8800000 (fas0):
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000   Target 4 reducing sync. transfer rate
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas
> @3,8800000/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
> Nov 23 12:44:41 e5000   SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying
> command
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /sbus at 3,0/SUNW,fas
> @3,8800000/sd at 2,0 (sd2):
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000   Error for Command: write(10)               Error
> Level:
> Retryable
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Requested Block:
> 2128694
>                    Error Block: 2128694
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Vendor: SEAGATE
>                    Serial Number: 0043K81286
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Sense Key: Unit
> Attentio
> n
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     ASC: 0x29 (scsi bus
> rese
> t occurred), ASCQ: 0x2, FRU: 0x2
> Nov 23 12:44:44 e5000 scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd4 at fas0: target 4 lun
0
>
>
> I also have a CDROM and DDS tape on the same controller (connected
> thru the front and into the 5000 chassis.
>
> Any idea what is going on?
>
> Francois
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It might not be the disk, have you changed the termination. I have had
similar errors (although without the write error) which has been
termination.

Dan



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