Re: kern/38299: bioctl problem with arcmsr

[Juan RP <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38299; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/38299: bioctl problem with arcmsr
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:07 +0100

 On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:25:01 +0000 (UTC)
 bsh%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > >Number:         38299
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       bioctl reports invalid status for working drives
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 26 04:25:01 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     Hiroyuki Bessho
 > >Release:        NetBSD 4.99.55
 > >Organization:
 >      Genetec corp.
 > >Environment:
 > System: NetBSD 061kihada.genetec.local 4.99.55 NetBSD 4.99.55
 > (GENERIC) #0: Fri Mar 21 18:40:34 JST 2008
 > bsh%061kihada.genetec.local@localhost:/u1/work/bsh/nb/tnf/current/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/obj.amd64/GENERIC
 > amd64 Architecture: x86_64 Machine: amd64
 > >Description:
 >   I have an Areca ARC-1120 RAID controller installed on dual Opteraon
 > box. I created a RAID set with 5 disks, which is working fine.
 > According to the BIOS RAID manager, there is no problem with the
 > disks, but "bioctl arcmsr0 show disks" command reports errors:
 > 
 > # bioctl arcmsr0 show disks
 >  Disk Model/Serial                   Status       Size       Location
 > =====================================================================
 >     0 [                            ] Invalid      0B     0:0.0 noencl
 >     1 [                            ] Invalid      0B     0:0.0 noencl
 >     2 [                            ] Invalid      0B     0:0.0 noencl
 >     4 [ST3250820AS 3.AAD           ] Online       233G   0:4.0 noencl
 >     6 [ST3250820AS 3.AAD           ] Online       233G   0:6.0 noencl
 > #
 > 
 > Disk #0, 1, and 2 are the same model; Maxtor 7Y250M0.
 > 
 > On the console, I had multiple messages like:
 > 
 >     arc_bio_disk_filldata: unknown disk device_state: 0x88
 
 Hi,
 
 can you look in the firmware menu in what state those disks are?
 
 I haven't found what 0x88 means and I'd like to fix this, with the ARC-1210
 I got couldn't look what this state is because it ocurred spuriosly.
 
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