[OpenIndiana-discuss] OCZ Deneva R Soft_Error on boot.

[James C. McPherson]

On 18/11/11 06:59 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:05 AM, James C. McPherson <james.c.mcpherson at gmail.com <mailto:james.c.mcpherson at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 17/11/11 05:45 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
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>         Would this seem to be more of a controller issue or with the firmware
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>         on the SSD? Trying to decide which vendor is at fault.
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>     I'd investigate the SSD first.

> On further investigation, I've found I can trigger this on demand, by
> using smartctl in smartmontools: smartctl
> /dev/rdsk/c25t5E83A97010004563d0s2 -d sat -HÂ Â A gentleman on the
> smartmontools list made the following comment if we were able to
> trigger it on demand with smartctl -H: "If yes then the OS likely
> misinterprets the sense data as an error. The SMART RETURN STATUS
> command returns its result in ATA output registers which are returned
> as SCSI sense data by the SAT ATA PASS-THROUGH(16) command (0x85).
> Some older SCSI layers do not properly decode this specific sense
> data block." Any thoughts on this?


Time to file a bug against the scsi layer then. Perhaps something
along the lines of

SATL fails to handle returned SMART sense data


James C. McPherson
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