From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: IW News Subject: Re: SAS disk from RAID card (no RAID mode) problems Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:57:28 +0100 Message-ID: <658c4d05-8105-1f02-633d-12bd8d00fb49@imagedworld.com> References: <2326bdf0-2948-5cbf-3033-27ed41803e23@imagedworld.com> <1567104.jAPptYD2GZ@natasha> <2822438.YHxX6ucKrv@natasha> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2822438.YHxX6ucKrv@natasha> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 27/12/16 17:12, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Tuesday, December 27, 2016 8:53:07 AM MST IW News wrote: >> On 26/12/16 22:25, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: >>> On Friday, December 23, 2016 9:01:40 AM MST IW News wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> First message here. >>>> >>>> After looking for a solution without any luck I have found this list. I >>>> hope someone can help me with this. >>>> >>>> I have an ASUS P6T Deluxe with a MARVELL 88SE63xx SAS RAID controller. >>>> There are to identical 400GB SAS SSD drives attached to it. One of them >>>> has a Windows 10 installation, the other one Linux. >>>> Grub is installed on the second disk. >>>> >>>> Windows works as expected, but I have problems with the Linux >>>> installation: the desktop environment freezes for some second once in a >>>> while. This occurs with Mint Cinnamon, OpenSuSe KDE, Ubuntu and Manjaro >>>> KDE. All of them are current installations. I'm now working in up to >>>> date Manjaro KDE (kernel 4.9.0). >>>> When the temporary freezes occur the mouse pointer moves, some windows >>>> are updated correctly, other do not and DE stops working. >>>> When this happens always I have a system log like this: >>> If thats the mvsas driver, god help you. I had nothing but troubles with >>> it >>> for a good year or two or possibly more and it was never fixed or really >>> acknowledged, so I sold that card (a supermicro aoc-saslp-mv8) and picked >>> up a IBM m1015 (LSI 9211-8i a-like) and haven't looked back. >>> >>> Basically it would reset a lot, and lock up. AND I believe it caused a lot >>> of silent corruption as well. >> Hi, >> >> So there is no support for the mvsas driver? >> >> The controller is integrated in the motherboard. I could by a PCIe one >> but, what's the deal them? >> >> Thank you. >> >> Iņigo. > I don't know that there isn't support, there has been commits to that driver > pretty regularly even when i was having problems. I just found there was no > support for my particular chipset. I hope you fare better than I did. Contact > linux-scsi as was suggested, maybe they can help. > I already contacted. No answer. Maybe there is no mvsas developer active there now.