Re: [smartmontools-support] Solaris 10/11 <undecoded cmd 0x85>

[Tim S. <ti...@se...>]

Arne Jansen wrote:
> Any hints how to avoid the console message?
>   

If it happens every time, but SMART otherwise seems to work OK, I'd 
guess that this is the same issue as recent Linux kernels have with 
incorrectly logging SMART SAT pass-throughs?   See the recent posting to 
this list from Douglas Gilbert.

Incidentally, I've recently been having stability problems with this 
arrangement under Linux, although it's not clear whether this is a 
driver or firmware bug..

If I do:

while true ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=empty count=1M ; sync ; rm empty ;
sync ; done

and:

while true ; do smartctl -a /dev/sg1 > /dev/null || echo failed && echo
-n . ; done

at the same time then about 10% of the smartctl commands fail, and the 
MPT driver occasionally resets the controller and/or particular drives.  
If you are able to run this test on a Solaris box I'd be interested to 
hear the results...

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