Hi James, I was testing with the qlogic board this afternoon and observed these messages in the dmesg output. They were generated in response to a switchdisable ; sleep 5 ; switchenable command sequence on my switch. end_request: I/O error, dev sdbz, sector 1282218 sd 4:0:34:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10000 run_workqueue: recursion depth exceeded: 4 Call Trace: end_request: I/O error, dev sdbz, sector 1282250 [<a000000100012ae0>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 sp=e0000034f6a8f9e0 bsp=e0000034f6a894c0 sd 4:0:34:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sdbz, sector 1282282 [<a000000100012b70>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60 sp=e0000034f6a8fbb0 bsp=e0000034f6a894a8 [<a0000001000c8f10>] run_workqueue+0x90/0x280 sp=e0000034f6a8fbb0 bsp=e0000034f6a89468 [<a0000001000c9150>] flush_cpu_workqueue+0x50/0x1e0 sp=e0000034f6a8fbb0 bsp=e0000034f6a89438 [<a0000001000c9350>] flush_workqueue+0x70/0x160 sp=e0000034f6a8fc10 bsp=e0000034f6a89410 [<a00000010052b130>] scsi_flush_work+0x90/0xc0 sp=e0000034f6a8fc10 bsp=e0000034f6a893e8 [<a000000100547480>] fc_rport_tgt_remove+0x100/0x140 sp=e0000034f6a8fc10 bsp=e0000034f6a893b8 [<a0000001005475b0>] fc_shost_remove_rports+0xf0/0x1c0 sp=e0000034f6a8fc10 bsp=e0000034f6a89388 [<a0000001000c9040>] run_workqueue+0x1c0/0x280 sp=e0000034f6a8fc10 bsp=e0000034f6a89348 [<a0000001000c9150>] flush_cpu_workqueue+0x50/0x1e0 sp=e0000034f6a8fc10 bsp=e0000034f6a89318 [<a0000001000c9350>] flush_workqueue+0x70/0x160 sp=e0000034f6a8fc70 bsp=e0000034f6a892f0 [<a00000010052b130>] scsi_flush_work+0x90/0xc0 sp=e0000034f6a8fc70 bsp=e0000034f6a892d0 [<a000000100547480>] fc_rport_tgt_remove+0x100/0x140 sp=e0000034f6a8fc70 bsp=e0000034f6a892a0 [<a0000001005475b0>] fc_shost_remove_rports+0xf0/0x1c0 sp=e0000034f6a8fc70 bsp=e0000034f6a89270 [<a0000001000c9040>] run_workqueue+0x1c0/0x280 sp=e0000034f6a8fc70 bsp=e0000034f6a89230 [<a0000001000c9150>] flush_cpu_workqueue+0x50/0x1e0 sp=e0000034f6a8fc70 bsp=e0000034f6a89200 [<a0000001000c9350>] flush_workqueue+0x70/0x160 sp=e0000034f6a8fcd0 bsp=e0000034f6a891d0 [<a00000010052b130>] scsi_flush_work+0x90/0xc0 sp=e0000034f6a8fcd0 bsp=e0000034f6a891b0 [<a000000100547480>] fc_rport_tgt_remove+0x100/0x140 sp=e0000034f6a8fcd0 bsp=e0000034f6a89180 [<a0000001005475b0>] fc_shost_remove_rports+0xf0/0x1c0 sp=e0000034f6a8fcd0 bsp=e0000034f6a89150 [<a0000001000c9040>] run_workqueue+0x1c0/0x280 sp=e0000034f6a8fcd0 bsp=e0000034f6a89110 [<a0000001000ca130>] worker_thread+0x1d0/0x260 sp=e0000034f6a8fcd0 bsp=e0000034f6a890e0 [<a0000001000d1f00>] kthread+0x220/0x2a0 sp=e0000034f6a8fd50 bsp=e0000034f6a89098 [<a000000100011070>] kernel_thread_helper+0xd0/0x100 sp=e0000034f6a8fe30 bsp=e0000034f6a89070 [<a000000100009120>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40 sp=e0000034f6a8fe30 bsp=e0000034f6a89070 sd 3:0:35:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sdcr, sector 1745339 sd 6:0:33:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10000 end_request: I/O error, dev sdek, sector 2880792 This happened a number of times during the single test event. Mike - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html