Hi all, I recently switched the sas controller of one of my machines to a LSI SAS 3081E-R (LSI 1068E Chipset, mptsas driver) I flashed the controller with the latest BIOS and firmware (IT) versions from the LSI website (BIOS 6.32.00.00, FW:1.31.00.00) The machine is running Debian Linux Lenny 5.0 (latest 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel) This kernel has the mptsas driver at version 3.04.06 After a weekend of testruns (creating a raidset, filesystems tests and performance tests) there suddenly dropped a disk from one of the md's with the following error: [260824.590033] end_request: I/O error, dev sdv, sector 3907028992 [260824.590111] md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 [260824.590184] raid5: Disk failure on sdv, disabling device. [260824.590186] raid5: Operation continuing on 5 devices. After inspecting the disk on smart errors i couldn't find any errors. I had the same problem on another system running the lenny-backports kernel 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (mptsas version 3.04.12) but since the disk there completely vanished from the kernel I don't know if this was really a disk problem or not. I read a thread to the mailinglist about this driver and there was stated that driver version 3.04.15 should be used. I saw that the latest version of the driver is 3.04.17 (in the 2.6.37 source) I'd like to avoid using a non-debian kernel so my question, is it possible to use the latest driver in the 2.6.26 and/or 2.6.32 debian kernel? If so, how would I compile this into the kernel? Kind regards, Caspar Smit -- 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
