From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristleifur_Da=F0ason?= Subject: Re: Known-good LSI PCIe SAS HBAs? Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:09:54 +0000 Message-ID: <73e903670911110309p6fc1cbe6x2481b61db3f7dd6d@mail.gmail.com> References: <73e903670911100854o1b48380apb5b0a86c44ae9dcb@mail.gmail.com> <200911110001.49910.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200911110001.49910.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom 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!