Solaris 10 Intel throwing disc controller errors

[Wookie]

I installed a Solaris 10 r8 Intel server in v5, and upgraded to v6 a couple of days ago. Now I'm seeing the VM freeze every now and then, and when it comes back I get the following spewed to the console:

Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv Error for command 'write sector' Error Level: Informational
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: aborted command
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv Error for command 'write sector' Error Level: Informational
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: aborted command
Sep 23 18:15:33 solserv gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3

Any ideas on if this can be fixed/worked-around?

 

[joevt]

Go to the virtual machine configuration and change the Hard Disk settings so the hard disks are connected to IDE or SATA instead of SCSI?

 

[Amit Phatarphekar]

Facing Similar issue

Wookie - Did u resolve your problem?

I'm having a similar issue on a SunOS 5.6 machine. I've installed this on a Dell SC430.
My server just hangs after a while.

Here's the message seen on solaris console
scsi: WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0 (ata0)
timeout: abort request, target=1 lun=0


The solaris machine has a VM, which is loaded from a remote machine that has the solaris machine mapped (SAN) to load the VM from it. Now I dont know if the msg seen on solaris box is from the VM or from the solaris OS itself. I would imagine its from solaris OS itself, since the VM is loaded remotely by someone else?