smartctl -a from shell causing HBA timeouts

Notice: Page may contain affiliate links for which we may earn a small commission through services like Amazon Affiliates or Skimlinks.

turgin

Member
May 16, 2016
52
7
8
50
I have 8 x 2TB SATA2 drives attached to an IBM BR10i (LSI 1068e). I also have 6 x 128GB SSDs attached to the LSI controller on my Supermicro X8DT6-F motherboard. Both HBAs are flashed with IT firmware.

New install of FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE-201605240427 (64fcd8e).

I am playing with running FreeNAS under ESXi 6 for an AIO home server. My FreeNAS guest has 32GB RAM (locked), 2 vCPU, and I have PCI passthrough configured for both HBAs. Everything seems to be working well except..

When I run smartctl -a on any of the 2TB drives from the shell option through the ESXi console I get the following errors:
Code:
mpt1: request 0xfffffe00009e1da8:2550 timed out for ccb 0xfffff8000b794800 (req->ccb 0xfffff8000b794800)
mpt1: attempting to abort req 0xfffffe00009e1da8:2550 function 0
mpt1: completing timedout/aborted req 0xfffffe00009e1da8:2550
mpt1: abort of req 0xfffffe00009e1da8:0 completed
mpt1: request 0xfffffe00009f3d08:2552 timed out for ccb 0xfffff8000b794800 (req->ccb 0xfffff8000b794800)
mpt1: attempting to abort req 0xfffffe00009f3d08:2552 function 0
mpt1: completing timedout/aborted req 0xfffffe00009f3d08:2552
mpt1: abort of req 0xfffffe00009f3d08:0 completed
I do not get them when running short or long tests nor do I get these errors when running the same commands from an ssh session (nothing in dmesg either) . I also do not get these errors on the SSDs from either console.

Should I be concerned? Any ideas why its happening?