Why does the MegaRAID SAS controller complain about firmware faults?

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Issue

  • Having problems with our storage backed by a MegaRAID SAS card. In /var/log/messages receiving messages about firmware being in a FAULT state. What can be done about this?
kernel: megasas: Found FW in FAULT state, will reset adapter.
kernel: megaraid_sas: resetting fusion adapter.
kernel: megasas: Waiting for FW to come to ready state
kernel: megasas: FW now in Ready state
kernel: megasas:IOC Init cmd success
kernel: megaraid_sas: Reset successful.

or

kernel: : megaraid_sas: FW detected to be in faultstate, restarting it
kernel: : megaraid_sas: FW restarted successfully,initiating next stage
kernel: : megaraid_sas: HBA recovery state machine,state 2 starting
kernel: : megasas: Waiting for FW to come to ready state
kernel: : megasas: FW in FAULT state!!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • MegaRAID SAS storage adapter

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