Encountering 'cciss 0000:08:00.0: cciss: c ffff810037e00000 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5' errors while using an HP RAID controller in RHEL5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Filesystem is entering a read-only state after the following messages are printed in /var/log/messages:
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: cciss 0000:08:00.0: cciss: c ffff810037e00000 has CHECK CONDITION sense key = 0x5
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: Aborting journal on device cciss/c0d0p6.
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p6) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p6) in ext3_dirty_inode: Journal has aborted
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: ext3_abort called.
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p6): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal -
Apr  4 12:47:11 hostname kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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