Writing to IBM Ultrium TD3 LTO-3 tape drive attached to Emulex fiber channel controller fails with "Invalid Message Error"
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Situation
Writing to an IBM Ultrium TD3 LTO-3 tape drive attached to Emulex fiber channel controller fails with an "Invalid Message" SCSI error message. Afterwards, no further write access to the tape drive is possible. The /var/log/messages file contains a SCSI error message like
kernel: st2: Error: 8000002, cmd: a 0 2 0 0 0 kernel: st: Current: sense key: Illegal Request kernel: Additional sense: Invalid message error
Resolution
The lpfc driver does not handle tagged command queuing correctly for this device. As a workaround, boot the system with the kernel command line optionscsi_mod.default_dev_flags=0x20,which will turn off of tagged queuing. A fix is scheduled for one of the upcoming maintenance updates of the Linux kernel for SLES10.
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- Document ID:3551772
- Creation Date: 19-Oct-2007
- Modified Date:04-Mar-2021
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