Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

[VeeJay]

Thanks guys... I have forwarded the comments from Scott to the Dell and hope
for the best....

Thank you again.....

VJ

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:

> The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of
> 0x35/0x05.  Looking this up in the ASC table found at t10.org gives
> the following:
>
> 35h/05h   ENCLOSURE SERVICES CHECKSUM ERROR
>
> What this basically means is that the disk enclosure that you're using
> has some sort of an unknown defect or failure.  It has nothing to do with
> the OS.  Dell needs to send you a new enclosure, plain and simple.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
>>
>>> I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide
>>> support
>>> for FreeBSD based systems [?]
>>> Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List...
>>>
>>
>> I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver.  He should
>> be able to explain what the error messages mean.
>>
>> Scott, check out the URL below.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it
>>>>> controller problem or disk?
>>>>>
>>>> SCSI normally reports 3 things when it encounters an error (particularly
>>>> disk errors): Sense Key (SK), Additional Sense Code (ASC), and
>>>> Additional Sense Code Qualifier (ASCQ).
>>>>
>>>> What appears in the below screenshot is a large amount of sense data,
>>>> but I can't make heads or tails out of it, because it's written in a
>>>> driver-centric manner ("Encl PD" means nothing to me).  I can read part
>>>> of the CDB data, but it doesn't tell me much.  Scott Long might know.
>>>>
>>>> http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/20081023_server3_screen_dump.png
>>>>
>>>> You should try asking the system manufacturer if they know what any
>>>> of the data means.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>


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Thanks!

BR / vj