IODrive2 - General Channel Initialization failure

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Jason Antes

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Feb 28, 2020
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Wondering if my 1.2TB IODrive2 is salvageable. It recently stopped working and running an fio-check gave me:
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Adapter: Single Controller Adapter
        Fusion-io ioDrive2 1.205TB, Product Number:F00-001-1T20-CS-0001, SN:1208D5248, FIO SN:1208D5248
        ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, PN:PA004137009
        External Power Override: ON
        External Power: NOT connected
        PCIe Power limit threshold: Disabled
        PCIe slot available power: unavailable
        Connected ioMemory modules:
          fct3: Product Number:F00-001-1T20-CS-0001, SN:1208D5248

fct3    Status unknown: Driver is in MINIMAL MODE:
                General channel initialization failure
        ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, Product Number:F00-001-1T20-CS-0001, SN:1208D5248
!! ---> There are active errors or warnings on this device!  Read below for details.
        ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, PN:PA004137009
        SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.35.0, Boot Version: 0.0.9.1
        Located in slot 0 Center of ioDrive2 Adapter Controller SN:1208D5248
        Powerloss protection: not available
        PCI:08:00.0, Slot Number:1
        Vendor:1aed, Device:2001, Sub vendor:1aed, Sub device:2001
        Firmware v7.1.17, rev 116786 Public
        Geometry and capacity information not available.
        Format: not low-level formatted
        PCIe slot available power: 26.00W
        PCIe negotiated link: 4 lanes at 5.0 Gt/sec each, 2000.00 MBytes/sec total
        Internal temperature: 63.49 degC, max 74.81 degC
        Internal voltage: avg 1.02V, max 1.02V
        Aux voltage: avg 2.48V, max 2.49V
        Rated PBW: 17.00 PB
        Lifetime data volumes:
           Physical bytes written: 0
           Physical bytes read   : 0
        RAM usage:
           Current: 0 bytes
           Peak   : 0 bytes

        ACTIVE WARNINGS:
            The ioMemory is currently running in a minimal state.
fio-pci-check didn't show any problems with the PCIE bus and I've been running 2 of these cards for several years without issue. Digging into the syslog I found these with relation to the problem:
Code:
2022-10-03T02:15:49.9641956Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: MINIMAL MODE DRIVER: General channel initialization failure. error code:-1
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956171Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 0 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956231Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 0 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956272Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 0 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956314Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 1 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956353Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 1 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956392Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 1 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956432Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 2 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956471Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 2 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956509Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 2 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956550Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 3 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956588Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 3 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956627Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 3 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
Code:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>fio-read-lebmap /dev/fct3
unexpected FUSION_IOCTL_QUERY_MEL result -22 (22).
Error: Failed to read MEL: Invalid input.
The system runs the consistency check on the still working drive without issue, but doesn't see this drive at all. Is it fubar or is there a way to remap those bad pads or force it online? Attach and detach don't work.

Thanks,
Jason
 

Jason Antes

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This is the full initialization out of the syslog. Looks good until it gets to those pad errors (I think).
Code:
2022-10-03T02:10:10.5633369Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - VSL configuration hash: 22e21ad8f72d48e3f25527ac40b81d79055f95b3
2022-10-03T02:10:10.5635738Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - ioMemory VSL v 3.2.15.1699 pinnacles@f0f84521e1b1 Built on Apr 10 2017 11:58:09
2022-10-03T02:10:10.5636953Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3 at 0000:08:00.0
2022-10-03T02:10:10.5702572Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - 0000:08:00.0: BIOS affinity configuration found - setting to node 0
2022-10-03T02:10:10.5799209Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - 0000:08:00.0: requested interrupt affinity group 0 (node 0), group-relative processor mask 0x0000000000000001
2022-10-03T02:10:10.7044432Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Starting master controller
2022-10-03T02:10:10.7676418Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: PMP Address: 1 1 1
2022-10-03T02:10:10.8302431Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: SMP Controller Firmware APP version 1.0.35 0
2022-10-03T02:10:10.8302453Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: SMP Controller Firmware BOOT version 0.0.9 1
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353214Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Required PCIE bandwidth 2.000 GBytes per sec
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353258Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Board serial number is 1215D0142
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353280Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Adapter serial number is 1215D0142
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353320Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Default capacity 1205.000 GBytes
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353342Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Default sector size 512 bytes
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353363Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Rated endurance 17.00 PBytes
2022-10-03T02:10:11.3353383Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: 100C temp range hardware found
2022-10-03T02:10:11.8353514Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Adapter: external power override enabled
2022-10-03T02:10:11.8353737Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Firmware version 7.1.17 116786 (0x700411 0x1c832)
2022-10-03T02:10:11.8353758Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Platform version 16
2022-10-03T02:10:11.8353780Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Firmware VCS version 116786 [0x1c832]
2022-10-03T02:10:11.8353918Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Firmware VCS uid 0xaeb15671994a45642f91efbb214fa428e4245f8a
2022-10-03T02:10:11.8661738Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Powercut flush: Enabled
2022-10-03T02:10:12.4909218Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: PCIe power monitor: disabled
2022-10-03T02:10:12.4909248Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Thermal monitoring: Enabled
2022-10-03T02:10:12.4909282Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Hardware temperature alarm set for 100C.
2022-10-03T02:10:14.3885575Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: Attempting to load ioDrive.
2022-10-03T02:10:14.4788810Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: sector_size=512
2022-10-03T02:10:14.4788848Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: setting channel range data to [2 .. 2047]
2022-10-03T02:10:14.9263584Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: Found metadata in EBs 1487-1487, loading...
2022-10-03T02:10:15.4670418Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: setting recovered append point 1487+749518848
2022-10-03T02:10:15.4881064Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: Creating device of size 1205000000000 bytes with 2353515625 sectors of 512 bytes (1412115131 mapped).
2022-10-03T02:10:15.4881093Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: Creating block device internal sector size: 512...
2022-10-03T02:10:15.4881356Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: Attach succeeded.
2022-10-03T02:10:15.4881377Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1215D0142: ioDrive was successfully loaded and attached to the system.
2022-10-03T02:10:15.4886458Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - Creating block device external sector size: 512...
2022-10-03T02:10:21.5568395Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fiochkdrv: starting
2022-10-03T02:10:21.5568463Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fiochkdrv: no unattached drives found
2022-10-03T02:10:21.5568515Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fiochkdrv: stopping
2022-10-03T02:15:47.5774424Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - VSL configuration hash: 22e21ad8f72d48e3f25527ac40b81d79055f95b3
2022-10-03T02:15:47.5777032Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - ioMemory VSL v 3.2.15.1699 pinnacles@f0f84521e1b1 Built on Apr 10 2017 11:58:09
2022-10-03T02:15:47.5778300Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2 at 0000:0d:00.0
2022-10-03T02:15:47.5845023Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - 0000:0d:00.0: BIOS affinity configuration found - setting to node 0
2022-10-03T02:15:47.5947208Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3 at 0000:08:00.0
2022-10-03T02:15:47.6013676Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - 0000:08:00.0: BIOS affinity configuration found - setting to node 0
2022-10-03T02:15:47.6015019Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - 0000:08:00.0: requested interrupt affinity group 0 (node 0), group-relative processor mask 0x0000000000000002
2022-10-03T02:15:47.6015920Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - 0000:0d:00.0: requested interrupt affinity group 0 (node 0), group-relative processor mask 0x0000000000000001
2022-10-03T02:15:47.7362582Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Starting master controller
2022-10-03T02:15:47.7362588Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Starting master controller
2022-10-03T02:15:47.7995169Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: PMP Address: 1 1 1
2022-10-03T02:15:47.8306945Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: PMP Address: 1 1 1
2022-10-03T02:15:47.8620762Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: SMP Controller Firmware APP version 1.0.35 0
2022-10-03T02:15:47.8620793Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: SMP Controller Firmware BOOT version 0.0.9 1
2022-10-03T02:15:48.0575772Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: SMP Controller Firmware APP version 1.0.35 0
2022-10-03T02:15:48.0575813Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: SMP Controller Firmware BOOT version 0.0.9 1
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015791Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Required PCIE bandwidth 2.000 GBytes per sec
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015830Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Board serial number is 1208D5248
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015851Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Adapter serial number is 1208D5248
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015892Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Default capacity 1205.000 GBytes
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015913Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Default sector size 512 bytes
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015935Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Rated endurance 17.00 PBytes
2022-10-03T02:15:48.4015954Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: 100C temp range hardware found
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890796Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Required PCIE bandwidth 2.000 GBytes per sec
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890837Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Board serial number is 1215D0142
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890857Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Adapter serial number is 1215D0142
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890902Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Default capacity 1205.000 GBytes
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890924Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Default sector size 512 bytes
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890945Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Rated endurance 17.00 PBytes
2022-10-03T02:15:48.5890964Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: 100C temp range hardware found
2022-10-03T02:15:48.9017192Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Adapter: external power override enabled
2022-10-03T02:15:48.9017412Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Firmware version 7.1.17 116786 (0x700411 0x1c832)
2022-10-03T02:15:48.9017434Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Platform version 16
2022-10-03T02:15:48.9017456Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Firmware VCS version 116786 [0x1c832]
2022-10-03T02:15:48.9017595Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Firmware VCS uid 0xaeb15671994a45642f91efbb214fa428e4245f8a
2022-10-03T02:15:48.9325449Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3: Powercut flush: Enabled
2022-10-03T02:15:49.0891084Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Adapter: external power override enabled
2022-10-03T02:15:49.0891253Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Firmware version 7.1.17 116786 (0x700411 0x1c832)
2022-10-03T02:15:49.0891274Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Platform version 16
2022-10-03T02:15:49.0891295Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Firmware VCS version 116786 [0x1c832]
2022-10-03T02:15:49.0891401Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Firmware VCS uid 0xaeb15671994a45642f91efbb214fa428e4245f8a
2022-10-03T02:15:49.1200601Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Powercut flush: Enabled
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956171Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 0 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956231Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 0 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956272Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 0 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956314Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 1 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956353Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 1 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956392Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 1 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956432Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 2 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956471Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 2 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956509Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 2 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956550Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 3 byte 1 exp: 0xa8 act: 0x01
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956588Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 3 byte 2 exp: 0x25 act: 0x02
2022-10-03T02:15:49.4956627Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: bad pad found: pad 7 bank 3 byte 3 exp: 0xcb act: 0x03
2022-10-03T02:15:49.7759994Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: PCIe power monitor: disabled
2022-10-03T02:15:49.7760023Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Thermal monitoring: Enabled
2022-10-03T02:15:49.7760050Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2: Hardware temperature alarm set for 100C.
2022-10-03T02:15:49.9641956Z - ERROR - FusionEventDriver - fct3: MINIMAL MODE DRIVER: General channel initialization failure. error code:-1
2022-10-03T02:15:51.7182618Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: Attempting to load ioDrive.
2022-10-03T02:15:51.8058296Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: sector_size=512
2022-10-03T02:15:51.8058338Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: setting channel range data to [2 .. 2047]
2022-10-03T02:15:52.2329291Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: Found metadata in EBs 1487-1487, loading...
2022-10-03T02:15:52.7646225Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: setting recovered append point 1487+749518848
2022-10-03T02:15:52.7860958Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: Creating device of size 1205000000000 bytes with 2353515625 sectors of 512 bytes (1412115131 mapped).
2022-10-03T02:15:52.7860981Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: Creating block device internal sector size: 512...
2022-10-03T02:15:52.7861221Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: Attach succeeded.
2022-10-03T02:15:52.7861242Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct2-1215D0142: ioDrive was successfully loaded and attached to the system.
2022-10-03T02:15:52.7866246Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - Creating block device external sector size: 512...
2022-10-03T02:15:59.9656362Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fct3-1208D5248: IOCTL 0xc030684d unsupported in minimal mode
2022-10-03T02:15:59.9656425Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fiochkdrv: starting
2022-10-03T02:15:59.9656482Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fiochkdrv: no unattached drives found
2022-10-03T02:15:59.9656533Z - INFO - FusionEventDriver - fiochkdrv: stopping