From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754627Ab3IKXBz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:01:55 -0400 Received: from smtp1.sscnet.ucla.edu ([128.97.229.231]:36550 "EHLO smtp1.sscnet.ucla.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753804Ab3IKXBy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:01:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 371 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:01:54 EDT Message-ID: <5230F4CD.4080501@cogweb.net> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:55:09 +0200 From: David Liontooth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ching2048@areca.com.tw Subject: arcmsr fails on wait 'get adapter firmware miscellaneous data' timeout Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To work around a cascading failure of arcmsr (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/12/320), I removed the arcmsr kernel module. On reinsertion, the first of two Areca 1680 cards (0b:00.0) fails to initialize: # dmesg | tail -n 300 | grep -C2 setting arcmsr 0000:0a:00.0: PCI INT A disabled arcmsr 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 48 (level, low) -> IRQ 48 arcmsr 0000:0b:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 arcmsr21: wait 'get adapter firmware miscellaneous data' timeout arcmsr 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A disabled arcmsr 0000:0a:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 52 (level, low) -> IRQ 52 arcmsr 0000:0a:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 Areca RAID Controller22: F/W V1.51 2012-07-04 & Model ARC-1680 scsi22 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable) The second card (0a:00.0) succeeds every time. On reboot, both cards initialize correctly every time. # modinfo arcmsr filename: /lib/modules/3.0.26/kernel/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.ko version: Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2010/08/05 license: Dual BSD/GPL description: ARECA (ARC11xx/12xx/16xx/1880) SATA/SAS RAID Host Bus Adapter author: Nick Cheng srcversion: F9D834593FE182DC013DBD0 0a:00.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1680 8 port PCIe/PCI-X to SAS/SATA II RAID Controller 0b:00.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1680 8 port PCIe/PCI-X to SAS/SATA II RAID Controller Not subscribed; please CC: Cheers, Dave