usb/150401: Errors from USB drives mixed between UFS and ZFS

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Monday 06 September 2010 05:33:09 Decibel! wrote:
> >Number:         150401
> >Category:       usb
> >Synopsis:       Errors from USB drives mixed between UFS and ZFS
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-usb
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 09 03:00:08 UTC 2010
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Decibel!
> >Release:        FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64
> >Organization:
> 
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD noel.decibel.org 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Thu
> Sep 2 19:38:40 CDT 2010 root at noel.decibel.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> >Description:
> I have a system with 3 USB drives: 2 are in a zpool mirror (though I've
> seen the same behavior with them in a simple zpool stripe), one is
> stand-alone UFS.
> 
> I can hit either ZFS or the UFS drive hard (running bonnie++) and things
> are fine. But as soon as I start hitting both of them, I start getting
> errors:
> 
> Sep  6 03:16:31 noel kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 03:16:31 noel root: ZFS: vdev I/O failure, zpool=zsb path=/dev/da0
> offset=1145095418880 size=1024 error=5 (I'll get some number of the second
> error, usually between 5 and 20 per incident).
> 
> The frequency of these errors is dependent on workload. I've been rsyncing
> some data at a rate of ~500kB/s (rsync --bwlimit=500) and that's
> generating roughly 3 events per hour:
> 
> Sep  6 00:36:00 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 01:37:11 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 01:38:25 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 01:40:02 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 01:41:03 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 01:41:34 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 02:18:27 noel kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 02:37:36 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 02:42:30 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 03:13:30 noel kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 03:15:38 noel kernel: (da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): AutoSense failed
> Sep  6 03:16:31 noel kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): AutoSense failed
> 
> The errors are always on the ZFS drives (da0, da1); I haven't seen any on
> the UFS drive.
> 
> decibel at noel.2[22:32]~:15>sudo usbconfig
> ugen0.1: <OHCI root HUB nVidia> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps)
> pwr=ON ugen1.1: <EHCI root HUB nVidia> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
> (480Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.2: <FreeAgent Seagate> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST
> spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.3: <FreeAgent Seagate> at usbus1, cfg=0
> md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.4: <FreeAgent Pro Seagate> at
> usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON ugen0.2: <USB Mouse
> Logitech> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Hopefully someone else can repeat this with a similar setup.
> 
> >Fix:
> >Release-Note:
> >Audit-Trail:
> 
> >Unformatted:
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Hi,

Try to enable quirks on your USB mass storage device, for example no 
synchronize cache. See man usbconfig and usbconfig -h and kldload usb_quirk.ko

--HPS