Re: Known-good LSI PCIe SAS HBAs?

["Kristleifur Daðason" <kristleifur@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> wrote:
> On Tue November 10 2009, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to replace a problematic Marvell PCIe SAS JBOD controller
>> from Supermicro, type AOC-SASLP-MV8. (mdadm freaks out on it and the
>> controller drops the drives - there has been discussion of the problem
>> on the list. Seems to be a mvsas driver problem but seems to surface
>> only under mdadm use.)
>>
>>...
>
> Not really an answer to your question, I got a snapshot of the in
> development driver that seems to work just fine. I haven't run smartctl on
> the controller much mind you, as it seems to freak out my onboard controller
> too (AMD SB750). I could attempt it, but I've recently just switched over to
> that hardware for my main server, and I'm reluctant to try running smartctl
> on the array, as it'd probably require a reboot to get which ever disk back
> that might get dropped.
>

That's quite interesting.
Did you discuss this on a mailing list somewhere and have a link to
that discussion? Or would you be willing to forward a message to
honorable mr. driver guy? I'd love to try the patch before buying a
new controller.

Thanks!