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Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> I saw some mention about BIOS knobs that controlled the minimum
> acceptable SATA link speed or something; that's the kind of thing I
> wondered about.
> 

You surely mean the SAS1068E controller. I'll have to look into the
documentation. Thanks for the advice.

>> As mentioned in the other posting I will attach those SSDs directly to
>> the mobo. There are 6 SATA ports there. I think this is the best
>> approach. But you know curiosity is a force you can not resist, so I
>> still want to know why?! :)
> 
> Haha, yeah, I know!  I noticed in your response to Sathya that you're
> running a 4.19.288 kernel, which is really, really old.  If it's
> practical, the first thing I would try is booting a current kernel,
> e.g., v6.4, on the chance that something has been fixed since v4.19.
> I didn't try to compare the mptsas driver to see if it has changed
> since then, so I don't know whether it's likely.

I'll check and try in any case. Thanks for the advice.

I'll report back in Sept.

BR

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