Why zlinux guest shows error messages "An error occurred in the DASD device driver, reason=09"?
Issue
- Hitachi VSP storage systems connected to IBM z196 via FICON channels. With the latest microcode updates, shows errors on kernel boot as follows:
00253 Buffer I/O error on device dasdg1, logical block 0
00254 lost page write due to I/O error on dasdg1
00255 /dev/dasdi1: clean, 38/36000 files, 6500/143976 blocks""
00256 /dev/dasdf1: clean, 3774/150176 files, 247536/600456 blocks""
00257 dasd-eckd 0.0.0203: An error occurred in the DASD device driver, reason=09
00258 dasd(eckd): I/O status report for device 0.0.0203:
00259 <3>dasd(eckd): in req: 000000007d8e1ea8 CC:00 FC:04 AC:00 SC:17 DS:0E CS:0
0 RC:0
00260 <3>dasd(eckd): device 0.0.0203: Failing CCW: 000000007d8e1fb0
00261 <3>dasd(eckd): Sense(hex) 0- 7: 80 00 00 00 41 ff ff 04
00262 <3>dasd(eckd): Sense(hex) 8-15: e7 20 2d 00 03 00 00 00
00263 <3>dasd(eckd): Sense(hex) 16-23: 6d b2 00 01 20 55 0f 04
00264 <3>dasd(eckd): Sense(hex) 24-31: 00 00 40 e1 00 00 00 00
00265 <3>dasd(eckd): 24 Byte: 0 MSG 4, no MSGb to SYSOP
00266 dasd(eckd): Related CP in req: 000000007d8e1ea8
00267 <3>dasd(eckd): CCW 000000007d8e1fa8: E7400040 7D8E1FB8 DAT: 01c00100 5500
0000
00268 d86
00269 <3>dasd(eckd): CCW 000000007d8e1fb0: A5041000 7D8E1FF8 DAT: c03b3998 0000
- The disks seem to go READ ONLY spontaneously.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- Hitachi VSP storage
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