From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 12163] mptsas driver cannot discover some hotplugged SATA/SAS disks Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:31:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20081218043124.3F698108041@picon.linux-foundation.org> References: Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42630 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751298AbYLREb5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:31:57 -0500 Received: from picon.linux-foundation.org (picon.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.79]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id mBI4VOYI025784 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:31:25 -0800 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12163 crquan@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |crquan@gmail.com ------- Comment #5 from crquan@gmail.com 2008-12-17 20:31 ------- This driver worked well in general situation, 1. use mptsas vendor driver 4.00.43 and this patch to let it work on 2.6.26.2; 2. all disks can be recognized when staticly booting or after hotplugged; But today we found another severe hotplug problem: Steps to reproduce: 1. use mdadm to create a soft RAID, e.g. create a md1 with level 5 on sdm,sdn,sdo; 2. if plug the disks in a soft RAID, the disks(sdm,sdn,sdo) cannot be recognized after inserted; 3. if these disks inserted into other slots, they can be recognized by mptsas; 4. if other disks inserted into these slots where (sdm,sdn,sdo) occupied, they cannot be recognized, too. 5. At the same time, other disks not in the soft RAID still support hotplug well; To sum in one word, the slot which has been occupied by a disk in soft RAID cannot support hotplug anymore (before rebooting). I suspect this is a generic scsi-level problem, sometimes it reports scsi_target alloc failed with -EEXIST; Reproducible: always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.