From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: mptbase Code={Abort} Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:47:05 +1200 Message-ID: <48027149.7090502@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.sauce.co.nz ([210.48.49.72]:38763 "EHLO smtp.sauce.co.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896AbYDMUqI (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:46:08 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Could you let me know when he replies, please? I would like know > whether it is something serious or can be ignored. Certainly. I think this is certainly impacting performance badly, judging by the LED's on each drive - each time an error occurs, it can take up to 10 seconds for them toi settle back to a stable pattern of activity. > I have noticed that turning off NCQ significantly reduces amount of > the errors. I have already tried this and found that the errors were slightly more frequent, but I had updated the HBA BIOS and firmware before I set the queues to 1, so I'm not sure which change had an effect. Regards, Richard