Igor Durdanovic wrote: > Tejun Heo writes: >>> Can you try to update the firmware as explained in the SIMG support page >>> and see whether that fixes the problem? > > I am actually trying to put all the sw on the array, will try to > update firmware later. > > Have some weird problems .. the whole thing just froze, sigh. > Also, why can't I enable write-caching on each drive behind PM? You should be. What do you mean by not being able to enable write-caching? >> Hmmm... Before doing that, do your drives spin up one-by-one as the >> above probing progresses? > > Yes, the probing starts with the bottom drive and progresses to the > top. But it seems for each drive it resets (from the bottom) all > already probed drives. SRST failure puts the host port into non-responding state and the driver resets the host port which in turn resets the PMP, so libata tries to reinitialize everything. Can you post boot log with printk timestamp (CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME) turned on? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html