[adding public lists back to CC since I can't sort this by myself any more] On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Carlo Pisani <carlojpisani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> While the symptom (HPMC) looks the same, the details are likely >> different for each card. It's been over 10 years but ISTR that "SER >> PIM" command when entered at boot prompt will dump those details. > > this is an old log > http://93.55.217.0/wonderland/chunk_of/user/ivelegacy/hppa-dev/ser-prim-2018-03-12--sata-crash Awesome - thank you! Can you tell me which SATA controller was installed when this crash was taken? > my C3600 is now busy, compiling 4.16.*, a couple of branches with two > different configurations, so I can't force a crash to have a fresh log > at the moment, but I will with several SATA card! No worries - start with one. :) > what about SAS kernel modules? are them better than SATA? In general, I expect they are better supported but I never worked with SAS controllers. > and what about SCSI (adaptec 29320, PCI-X)? Sorry: I don't have any experience with adaptec - only the LSI SCSI controllers, Marvel 7042 SATA controller, and Silicon Image 3124 (IIRC). The SI3124 was a PoS. MV7042 worked well and was reliable "at scale". > I am waiting for an array of disks, I can test the SCSI card under > heavy I/O to see > - performance > - stability > > it will be delivered here for the end of the next week Ok! Sounds like fun! :D cheers, grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
