Hello, sorry for the delayed reply!
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:47:00PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote: > > When you thought the paths were back, were they responding to scsi commands? > > Sorry, didn't check that at the time. > > > You could use tools from the sg3-utils package or use the scsi_id > > program to confirm that. > > I'll try to setup a test environment. In a test environment, after a consecutive reboot of each of the two VIOS: ststnagios02:~# multipath -ll mpath0 (36005076801918127980000000000023b) dm-0 AIX,VDASD size=36G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=0 status=enabled |- 0:0:1:0 sda 8:0 failed faulty running `- 1:0:1:0 sdb 8:16 failed faulty running ststnagios02:~# dmesg | tail [6835466.341578] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 [6835466.341592] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 [6835467.341974] sd 1:0:1:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code [6835467.341983] sd 1:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [6835467.341990] sd 1:0:1:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 [6835467.342003] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 [6835471.342506] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [6835471.342516] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [6835471.342523] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 [6835471.342536] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 ststnagios02:~# /sbin/scsiinfo -l /dev/sda /dev/sdb ststnagios02:~# /sbin/scsiinfo -i /dev/sda INQUIRY command status = 1 ststnagios02:~# /sbin/scsiinfo -i /dev/sdb INQUIRY command status = 1 The Debian system is currently still in the "floating" state, so if there's any other test you'd like me to run, that'd be no problem. All other AIX systems on the test hardware sucessfully recovered their paths though. Thanks & best regards, Frank Fegert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org