Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > I saw some mention about BIOS knobs that controlled the minimum > acceptable SATA link speed or something; that's the kind of thing I > wondered about. > You surely mean the SAS1068E controller. I'll have to look into the documentation. Thanks for the advice. >> As mentioned in the other posting I will attach those SSDs directly to >> the mobo. There are 6 SATA ports there. I think this is the best >> approach. But you know curiosity is a force you can not resist, so I >> still want to know why?! :) > > Haha, yeah, I know! I noticed in your response to Sathya that you're > running a 4.19.288 kernel, which is really, really old. If it's > practical, the first thing I would try is booting a current kernel, > e.g., v6.4, on the chance that something has been fixed since v4.19. > I didn't try to compare the mptsas driver to see if it has changed > since then, so I don't know whether it's likely. I'll check and try in any case. Thanks for the advice. I'll report back in Sept. BR -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0
