Why does the system drop to dracut prompt on boot when the root file system comes from a RAID controller?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Sporadically, mpt3sas reports some messages like the following:

    mpt3sas0: failure at drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c:7884/_scsih_probe()!
    
  • System does not boot and drops to dracut prompt because it cannot find the root file system

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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