RHEL 4 system gives error "mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort!"

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Issue

  • A RHEL 4.4 guest  running on ESX 4.0.2 gives error pertaining to mptscsi and mptbase in dmesg log:

    mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=f7d3aac0) 
    scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0 
            command = Write (10) 00 02 4c fb 5f 00 00 08 00 
    mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated 
    mptscsi: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=f7d3aac0) 
    mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=dbe60b00) 
    scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0 
            command = Write (10) 00 02 72 e7 27 00 00 08 00 
    mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated 
    mptscsi: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=dbe60b00) 
    mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=e47843c0) 
    scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0 
            command = Write (10) 00 02 72 e8 8f 00 00 20 00 
    mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated 
    mptscsi: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=e47843c0) 
    mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=c0506800) 
    scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0 
            command = Write (10) 00 02 e6 e7 87 00 00 08 00 
    mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated 
    mptscsi: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=c0506800) 
    mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=dbe60200) 
    scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0 
            command = Write (10) 00 00 72 80 14 00 00 08 00 
    mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated 
    mptscsi: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=dbe60200) 
    mptscsi: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=e35a2340) 
    scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0 
    
  • In the past this system has gone in read-only mode. Reboot temporary solved the problem. Does the above messages report a  system problem?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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