On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Bruce Stenning wrote:
The 2.6.38.2 kernel still exhibits the same lockups that we see with the
2.6.26 kernel.
Hi.
I have some input on this. I have one of these controllers and had
problems with one channel where if I had a drive in that hotswap bay, the
controller wouldn't even POST at boot. It just stuck in the detection
phase in the controller BIOS.
When I tested hotplugging into that bay when the system was running, I
received a kernel warning (it's not powered on at the moment so I can't
provide the output, if it's important I can get it).
My point is that there might be a problem with this controller hw or
firmware that doesn't handle all behaviour/situations properly. I
re-seated the SATA cable at both ends and after that couldn't reproduce
the problem (which was reproduced with two different make harddrives
several times before re-seating the cable).
This was with the 2.6.32 debian stable kernel, AMD64 version.
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