Strange CAM errors

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 2012-12-17 15:38, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Check the smart results of each disk in the array you may have a failing
> disk.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw at digiware.nl>
> To: "FreeBSD Stable Users" <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 10:58 AM
> Subject: Strange CAM errors
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have not noticed this before, but my system rebooted this morning and
>> in the following security report I found a lot of messgaes in the
>> dmesg-part like:
>>
>> +(probe0:arcmsr0:0:16:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 20 0 0 24 0
>> +(probe0:arcmsr0:0:16:1): CAM status: Command timeout
>> +(probe0:arcmsr0:0:16:1): Retrying command
>> +(probe0:arcmsr0:0:16:1): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 20 0 0 24 0
>> +(probe0:arcmsr0:0:16:1): CAM status: Command timeout
>> +(probe0:arcmsr0:0:16:1): Retrying command
>>
>> And it seems that bus 16 is:
>> +pass6 at arcmsr0 bus 0 scbus0 target 16 lun 0
>> +pass6: <Areca RAID controller R001> Fixed Processor SCSI-0 device
>>
>> The system has been running
>> FreeBSD zfs.digiware.nl 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #3: Wed
>> Nov 14 13:25:55 CET 2012
>> root at zfs.digiware.nl:/usr/obj/usr/srcs/src9/src/sys/ZFS  amd64
>> for already a while.
>>
>> Anybody suggestions as to why I have these messages?
>>
>> They are during the boot sequence, so no smartd talking to the disks at
>> that moment.
>>
>> --WjW
>>
>> ps: dmesg, config, etc.... at:

>> http://www.tegenbosch28.nl/FreeBSD/Systems/ZFS
>> ps2: upgrading to the most recent 9.1

'mmm,

Smartd seems to think otherwise...

'camcontrol rescan all' actually delivers the same pack of errors.

--WjW