OLVM: I/O Error When Writing on a Direct Attached Disk with Pass-Through Enabled (Doc ID 2846670.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

• Oracle Linux 7.9 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [5.4.17]
• Virtual Machine with a Direct-Attached Disk
• Disk is configured with "Enabled SCSI Pass-Through"

When trying to create a new file system, or writing in a existing file system, the following messages can be observed in /var/log/messages:

Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: blk_update_request: critical target error, dev sda, sector 0
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 0, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 1, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 2, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 3, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 4, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 5, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 6, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 7, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 8, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block 9, lost async page write
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Invalid field in cdb
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 00 2f 40 00 03 f0 00
Dec 20 08:08:15 <hostname> kernel: blk_update_request: critical target error, dev sda, sector 12096

Changes

Pass-Through is enabled.
 

Cause

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