My original post was user error and not acutally a bug. I didn't realize that there was another patch I need to apply to rc3 to get the latest scsi drivers and error handler code. Alexis clued me in. Now the error handler appears to be working properly. I included a sample at the bottom of this email. I am still seeing the disk go offline if I run i/o performance tests on sas disks connected to the aic94xx (sequencer version 32). It doesn't happen right away. The i/o tests will run for several hours before it fails. Eventually you see the filesystem abort and then be remounted as read only. Peter Bogdanovic IBM sas: command 0xffff810142569200, task 0xffff81022ad27980, timed out: EH_NOT_HANDLED^M sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host^M sas: trying to find task 0xffff81022ad27980^M sas: sas_scsi_find_task: aborting task 0xffff81022ad27980^M aic94xx: tmf tasklet complete^M aic94xx: tmf resp tasklet^M aic94xx: tmf came back^M aic94xx: task not done, clearing nexus^M aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus_tag: PRE^M aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus_tag: POST^M aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus_tag: clear nexus posted, waiting...^M aic94xx: task 0xffff81022ad27980 done with opcode 0x23 resp 0x0 stat 0x8d but aborted by upper layer!^M aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus_tasklet_complete: here^M aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus_tasklet_complete: opcode: 0x0^M aic94xx: came back from clear nexus^M aic94xx: task 0xffff81022ad27980 aborted, res: 0x0^M sas: sas_scsi_find_task: task 0xffff81022ad27980 is done^M sas: sas_eh_handle_sas_errors: task 0xffff81022ad27980 is done^M sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK^M end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 27106623^M sas: --- Exit sas_scsi_recover_host^M - To unsubscribe from this list: 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