Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC)

[Scott Long]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> I originally sent this to -questions, but got no response.  I hope this
> is a good place to send this.  While the drives and controller are
> SATA, the driver is the SCSI aac driver for the adaptec raid, hence
> this group.  I would appreciate any attempts to help me understand what
> is going on.  I have flashed the latest BIOS and Firmware into the card
> and upgraded FBSD to 5.2.1-RELEASE and it still has this problem
> suddenly.  Rebooting, etc have no effect.
> I would appreciate being directly cc: ed on any replies, as I am
> subscribed to -questions but not -scsi
> thanks

I rarely read the freebsd-questions@ list, but you are welcome to email me
directly with aac driver questions.  See below:

>
> Hi
>
> I have an Adaptec 2410SA RAID card with 3 drives attached, 2 in a RAID
> 1 array and one as a separate disk.  This has been working under
> 5.2-RELEASE in my test server for some time now.  However, for some
> reason the machine locked up (may not be related) and I had to do a
> hard reset.
>
> Now the machine, when it tries to check the two aacd volumes on this
> controller, starts printing out this message below every 20 seconds or
> so and the disk volumes cannot be used.  Each new IO attempt triggers a
> new set of these messages.  The hex number after the COMMAND word is
> different for each new IO request but of course stays the same for
> repeated messages relating to the same original IO request
>
> aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS
>
> I have googled on this and similar posts related to 2120S controllers
> all seemed to have different causes and fixes...
>

I thought that 5.2.1 would have fixed all of this.  This isn't good.

> Any hints or ideas on what is causing this?  I can get into the
> controller at POST time and it checks out...

Can you boot the machine at all?  If so, could I feed you some patches to
help diagnose the problem?

Scott