Bug 533035

Summary: SMART responses for SATA disks on SAS get interpreted as errors
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pim Zandbergen <p.zandbergen>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, kernel-maint, pasteur
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Description Pim Zandbergen 2009-11-04 18:52:27 UTC
Description of problem:

Running smartctl or smartd on SATA disks connected to a SAS controller
using the mptsas driver causes error messages in the syslog

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
any 2.6.30 kernel, ie kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.x86_64


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect a SATA disk to an mptsas SAS controller
2. run smartctl -a -d sat /dev/sdX
3. view /var/log/messages
  
Actual results:
Nov  4 19:40:41 moog kernel: sd 10:0:4:0: [sdh] Sense Key : Recovered Error [current] [descriptor]
Nov  4 19:40:41 moog kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Nov  4 19:40:41 moog kernel:        72 01 00 1d 00 00 00 0e 09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 
Nov  4 19:40:41 moog kernel:        00 4f 00 c2 00 50 
Nov  4 19:40:41 moog kernel: sd 10:0:4:0: [sdh] Add. Sense: ATA pass through information available


Expected results:
no error messages


Additional info:
these errors get reported by logwatch

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-04-28 11:05:34 UTC
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Comment 2 Pim Zandbergen 2010-05-03 08:49:11 UTC
This issue is still not fixed in Fedora 12 using kernel-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64

Comment 3 Kenny G 2010-07-13 11:07:45 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 4 Pim Zandbergen 2010-07-13 11:22:32 UTC
Actually, this issue is fixed in the 2.6.33 kernels that come with Fedora 13.

Comment 5 Kenny G 2010-07-13 11:36:36 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 6 Pim Zandbergen 2010-07-13 12:57:15 UTC
I can't tell what was changed that made this issue disappear. I can only tell the issue went away on every server I upgraded. I probably should have reported that earlier.

I'm not even sure whether this was a problem with LSI cards only or a generic problem.

The kernel bugzilla does not mention anything either.

Comment 7 Kenny G 2010-07-20 19:46:09 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 8 Pim Zandbergen 2010-07-21 09:00:28 UTC
The issues in comment #7 look like something different to me.

Bug 533035 is about logging a non-error as an error.

Comment 9 Chuck Ebbert 2010-07-21 12:35:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> This issue has not been fixed in Fedora 13 for my system.
> 
> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4813320660_d2911fde74_b.jpg
> 

That is a completely different error. Please file a bug against Fedora 13.

Comment 10 Chuck Ebbert 2010-07-21 12:36:24 UTC
Closing as fixed in Fedora 13.