Re: megaraid_sas : Error message from SYNC CACHE cmd fills up kernel log

2007-02-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:14 -0700, Patro, Sumant wrote: > 1. Shouldn't the OS stop sending the sync cache cmd > if it sees it is "Failed" with "Invalid Command" in sense info ? Possibly, but supporting a write back cache but not supporting the command to flush it is unusual (or more likely IDE

megaraid_sas : Error message from SYNC CACHE cmd fills up kernel log

2007-02-05 Thread Patro, Sumant
MegaRAID (MR) SAS Adapter FW is exposing VDs (Logical Disks) with WCE enabled in Mode Sense command for drives that are configured as WriteBack by the user. When the VDs are exported as Write Back drives, OS is sending "Synchronize Cache" command to the drives frequently. Per SCSI Spec, this comm