Tejun Heo wrote: > If you have the machine locally, one thing you can try is to pull out > all the drives and hook them up directly to the motherboard bypassing > the backplane and see whether anything changes. Yes, I think I'll try to go this way. Unfortunately (or not :) the issue happens once a month... I'll see if icnreasing the load on the machine it will happen more frequently. Stan Hoeppner wrote: > In short, I don't know how it all needs to be hooked up, what the specific > device combination needs to be, or what Linux modules you need to > communicate with the MG9072 chip on that backplane. Again, call your > vendor. It's their product. They should have the answers. Yes, I talked to supermirco and suggested basically what Tejun did: bypass the backplane and see if the problem persists. > Your welcome. Glad to pass on some of my experience if it can help someone > else. I wish there was more I could do at this point, but it's pretty much > up to you now. Hope I've helped steer you in the right direction. As > always, don't put all your eggs in this one troubleshooting basket. The > cause of the problem could also lie elsewhere so keep and open mind and > don't throw up your hand in frustration if this track doesn't pan out. Very valuable info, thank you. Cheers, Ludovico -- 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