This morning as I continue to work on my new server, I ran in to a serious problem—the /var/log directory was growing at an alarming rate! Both the messages and warn logfiles were over 4Gb each, after only about five hours of operation. The logs were filling with kernel messages that looked like this:
kernel: FAILED
kernel: status = 1, messages = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
kernel: <6>sd: Current: sense key: Illegal Request
And this was showing up dozens of times per second. Thinking I was either on the fast track to a kernel panic or just filling up my shiny new 750Gb (RAID-1) setup, I quickly googled for an answer and found it here. I tried to leave a “thank you” comment, but his comment code is broken. I’m trying to send a trackback instead.
In any case, the short answer is as follows:
cd /var/lib/dkms/megaraid_sas/v00.00.03.16/source
patch < patches/sles10-ga.patch
If you are asked about using the -R option, answer yes.
dkms build -m megaraid_sas -v v00.00.03.16
dkms install -m megaraid_sas -v v00.00.03.16
Reboot your machine. You will no longer have kernel issues with the RAID controller. You may have a different version than I do (03.16), but it should still work.
Be sure and visit Jonathan Delgado’s blog post about this problem for many more details.