freebsd stable - Jun 2003 - pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE

I installed a Promise SuperTrak SX6000 ATA RAID controller on 4.8-RELEASE.

The following message is logged when the device is under load (equivalent of
make release):
    pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE

Should I be concerned?

Does the I/O fail and the driver simply not report the failure to the
application?

-- Scott

On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:06 pm, Scott R. Sewall
wrote:
> I installed a Promise SuperTrak SX6000 ATA RAID controller on 4.8-RELEASE.
>
> The following message is logged when the device is under load (equivalent
> of make release): pst: timeout mfa=0x00327b90 cmd=WRITE
>
> Should I be concerned?
We haven't been :)

We're using that same card and we've been getting those messages for
both
WRITE and READ occassionally ever since our came up 4 and a half months ago.  
We haven't noticed any problems relating to those errors in particular.  
Stuff seems to still work fine.

bash-2.05b# gunzip /var/log/messages*.gz && \
>           cat /var/log/messages* | grep "pst: timeout" | wc -l
     529

The only thing that bugs me is the fact that the box takes about half an hour 
to reboot, even when the raid has been cleanly dismounted (don't even ask
how
long it takes when it needs to be fsk'ed).

If you (or anyone) finds or has a better answer for the timeout error or the 
reboot thing, please do share :)

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