Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2010-06-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:04:42PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Intel X25-M G1 firmware 8820 (80GB MLC) > > Intel X25-M G2 firmware 02HD (160GB MLC) > > > > What problems did you have with the X25-M models? I'm not the OP, but I've had two X25M G2's (80 and 160 GByte) suddenly die out me,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2010-06-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:46:19AM -0700, Peter Eriksson wrote: > Just a quick followup that the same issue still seems to be there on our > X4500s with the latest Solaris 10 with all the latest patches and the > following SSD disks: > > Intel X25-M G1 firmware 8820 (80GB MLC) > Intel X25-M G2 f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Eriksson
Just a quick followup that the same issue still seems to be there on our X4500s with the latest Solaris 10 with all the latest patches and the following SSD disks: Intel X25-M G1 firmware 8820 (80GB MLC) Intel X25-M G2 firmware 02HD (160GB MLC) However - things seem to work smoothly with: Inte

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-15 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Eric Schrock wrote: > I don't have the ATA spec in front of me, but that that looks like pretty > normal output to me. Glad to hear they addressed the issue. Excellent; I reinstalled it in my test x4500, if no other issues show up I can try to get my proposal to install them

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-15 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sep 15, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: I updated to the new X25-E firmware, and I think it might have resolved the problem. smartctl under Linux no longer give a warning, and the diskstat check under Solaris no longer appears to have garbage. I attached output from smartctl, d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-15 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Eric Schrock wrote: > Actually, it's not one byte - the entire page is garbage (as we saw in > the dtrace output). But I'm guessing that smartctl (and hardware SATL) > is aborting on the first invalid record, while we keep going and blindly > "translate" one form of garbage i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-14 Thread Peter Eriksson
Now tested a firmware 8850 X25-E in one of our X4500:s and things look better: > # /ifm/bin/smartctl -d scsi -l selftest /dev/rdsk/c5t7d0s0 > smartctl version 5.38 [i386-pc-solaris2.10] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > No self-tests have be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-14 Thread Peter Eriksson
I can confirm that on an X4240 with the LSI (mpt) controller: X25-M G1 with 8820 still returns invalid selftest data X25-E G1 with 8850 now returns correct selftest data (I haven't got any X25-M G2) Going to replace an X25-E with the old firmware in one of our X4500s soon and we'll see if things

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-13 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Mike Gerdts wrote: > August 11 they released firmware revisions 8820, 8850, and 02G9, > depending on the drive model. Ooooh, cool, last time I checked they only had updates for the X25-M. Thanks for the pointer. ___ zfs-discuss mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sep 12, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: In any case, I agree with you that the firmware is buggy; however I disagree with you as to the outcome of that bug. The drive is not returning random garbage, it has *one* byte wrong. Other than that all of the data seems ok, at least to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sep 12, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Paul B. Henson wrote: On another note, my understanding is that the official Sun sold and supported SSD for the x4540 is basically just an OEM'd Intel X25- E. Did Sun install their own fixed firmware on their version of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Paul B. Henson wrote: > >> In any case, I agree with you that the firmware is buggy; however I >> disagree with you as to the outcome of that bug. The drive is not >> returning random garbage, it has *one* byte wrong. Ot

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Paul B. Henson wrote: > In any case, I agree with you that the firmware is buggy; however I > disagree with you as to the outcome of that bug. The drive is not > returning random garbage, it has *one* byte wrong. Other than that all of > the data seems ok, at least to my inexp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Eric Schrock wrote: > Also, were you ever able to get this disk behind a SAS transport (X4540, > J4400, J4500, etc)? It would be interesting to see how hardware SATL > deals with this invalid data. Output from 'smartctl -d sat' and > 'smartctl -d scsi' on such a system would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Eric Schrock wrote: > Your statement that it is "just fine" is false: I didn't say it worked "perfectly", I said it worked "fine". Yes, it gave a *warning* that the "SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number" was 0 instead of 1, **however** other than that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Carson Gaspar
Carson Gaspar wrote: Except you replied to me, not to the person who has SSDs. I have dead standard hard disks, and the mpt driver is just not happy. After applying 141737-04 to my Sol 10 system, things improved greatly, and the constant bus resets went away. After upgrading to OpenSolaris 6/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Carson Gaspar
James C. McPherson wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:31:11 -0700 Carson Gaspar wrote: Alex Li wrote: We finally resolved this issue by change LSI driver. For details, please refer to here http://enginesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ssd-faults-finally-resolved/ Anyone from Sun have any knowledge o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread James C. McPherson
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:31:11 -0700 Carson Gaspar wrote: > Alex Li wrote: > > We finally resolved this issue by change LSI driver. For details, please > > refer to here > > http://enginesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ssd-faults-finally-resolved/ > > Anyone from Sun have any knowledge of when the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Eric Schrock
Also, were you ever able to get this disk behind a SAS transport (X4540, J4400, J4500, etc)? It would be interesting to see how hardware SATL deals with this invalid data. Output from 'smartctl -d sat' and 'smartctl -d scsi' on such a system would show both the ATA data and the translated

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sep 12, 2009, at 12:00 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote: Well, I won't claim the drive firmware is completely innocent, but as evidenced in http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/fm-discuss/2009-June/ 000436.html smartctl on a Linux box seems to work just fine. The exact same model drive also

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-12 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Eric Schrock wrote: > It's clearly bad firmware - there's no bug in the sata driver. That > drive basically returns random data, and if you're unlucky that > randomness will look like a valid failure response. In the process I > found one or two things that could be tightene

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-11 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: x4500's have Marvell SATA controllers, not LSI. My issue with Intel SSD's being marked faulty in X4500's has yet to be resolved. The last time I rebooted it fm started marking the SSD failed again due to invalid self-check log data. I had so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-11 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Alex Li wrote: > We finally resolved this issue by change LSI driver. For details, please > refer to here > http://enginesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ssd-faults-finally-resolved/ I believe you hijacked my thread ;). x4500's have Marvell SATA controllers, not LSI. My issue

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-10 Thread Carson Gaspar
Alex Li wrote: We finally resolved this issue by change LSI driver. For details, please refer to here http://enginesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ssd-faults-finally-resolved/ Anyone from Sun have any knowledge of when the open source mpt driver will be less broken? Things improved greatly for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-09-10 Thread Alex Li
We finally resolved this issue by change LSI driver. For details, please refer to here http://enginesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ssd-faults-finally-resolved/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2009-07-30 Thread Alex Li
We found lots of SAS Controller Reset and errors to SSD on our servers (OpenSolaris 2008.05 and 2009.06 with third-party JBOD and X25-E). Whenever there is an error, the MySQL insert takes more than 4 seconds. It was quite scary. Eventually our engineer disabled the Fault Management SMART Pooli