Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > 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. > Hi, writing politely in reply to your politeness :). I upgraded to 5.15.131. I need a stable system and do not want to jump that far to 6.x. But it seems this issue is related to a defect in the firmware of the controller. I will try to reflash a newer version during the week. I hope it helps. Current version is 01.26.00.00 (see [1]). In the readme[2], I read Phase21 Pre-Alpha Release Version 00.33.01.00 - SAS1_FW_Ph_21 (SCGCQ00177063) Change Summary ( Defects=5) SCGCQ00173656 (DFCT) - 6G SATA drive negotiates to 1.5G speed I will also check the BIOS settings, when in front of the machine it could be that link speed is enforcable BR [1] Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS 1068E(B3): Controller Number: 2 Controller: 1068E(B3) PCI Address: 00:08:00:00 SAS Address: 500605b-0-02d0-f3b0 NVDATA Version (Default): 0x2d00 NVDATA Version (Persistent): 0x2d00 Product ID: 0x2704 Firmware Version: 01.26.00.00 NVDATA Vendor: Intel NVDATA Product ID: SASUC8I BIOS Version: 06.24.00.00 BIOS Alternate Version: N/A EFI BSD Version: N/A FCODE Version: N/A [2] SCG Engineering Release Notice Product: Firmware Version: 01.33.00.00 Release Date: 22-AUG-11 Release Type: GCA -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0
