Re: R730 "assuming drive cache: write through" messages on CentOS 7.2

Patrick Boutilier <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:22:24 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge
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On 07/14/2016 05:02 PM, Ryan W wrote:
> I'm getting this message periodically in CentOS 7.2 on a new R730 with a
> H730 PERC card (may not be related to the PERC)
>
> [  183.110253] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] 2112 512-byte logical blocks: (1.08
> MB/1.03 MiB)
> [  183.111415] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> [  183.111420] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
> [  183.221091] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
> [  183.224415] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
>
>
> However, fdisk -l doesn't show an sdc, and /dev/sdc does not exist.
>
> What is creating these messages?
>
> /dev/sda is my H730 RAID10 array, /dev/sdb is my mirrored IDSDM module


That happens when system inventory is collected, such as when this is run:

dsu -i





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