Re: aic94xx status

Mike Anderson
2006-07-11T05:07:36Z

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:09 -0700, Mike Anderson wrote:
> > Currently I am running a loaned SATA drive with the patch below. It
> > just
> > generates the "Unidentified device type" type message when it detects
> > a
> > SATA device and appears in my configuration to not cause any bad
> > things to
> > happen.
>
> That seems to cover the directly attached case, thanks.
>
> What happens if the SATA device is remote over an expander using STP?
> That seems to have a separate case in sas_ex_discover_end_dev.

I tried the SATA drive connected off a edge device prior to having to
return the device. I saw the devices address in the attached message, but
nothing else was printed. At least it did not cause any other issues.

-andmike
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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com