From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Johnson Subject: Suggestions for testing SAS cables via sg3_utils Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:25:03 -0700 Message-ID: <5509D10F.2020601@aeoncomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:35369 "EHLO mail-ob0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932823AbbCRTZE (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:25:04 -0400 Received: by obcjt1 with SMTP id jt1so19594163obc.2 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cloudberry-sbg.corp.aeoncomputing.com ([12.226.163.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h4sm11613230obr.18.2015.03.18.12.25.03 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Linux SCSI Mailing List Greetings, Does anyone have an effective way of testing SAS cabling in a Linux environment without using a block storage device? Something like reading/writing to a buffer in an expander (LSI). Something that could stress all four lanes of a multilane cable. Like a SAS equivalent of a floodping between a SAS initiator and a SAS expander to stress the cable. Thanks, --Jeff -- ------------------------------ Jeff Johnson Co-Founder Aeon Computing jeff dot johnson at aeoncomputing.com www.aeoncomputing.com t: 858-412-3810 x1001 4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite D - San Diego, CA 92117 High-performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage