On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:13 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > The code (0x12) means PL_LOGINFO_CODE_ABORT > > The sub_code(0x102) means > PL_LOGINFO_SUB_CODE_OPEN_FAILURE_PATHWAY_BLOCKED > > To translate this according to the SAS 1.1 specification, a > pathway open > failed because a timeout fired before the path could be established. > > You can mitigate this by increasing the expander partial > pathway timeout > value. (or just move to a more efficient configuration). > I was telling Ric it was something else in seperate email. The pathway was blocked due to two initiors establishing a connection to single port. That woudl be the case if he wasn't using a sata multiplexor. anyways, if the pathway timeout is the issue, then I believe you can set the pathway timeout value using Dougs smp tools, smp_phy_control , setting the --pptv command line option. http://sg.danny.cz/sg/smp_utils.html-- 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