On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 05:05:53PM -0600, Moore, Eric wrote: > Doug, the SATL is implemented in controller FW, not the mpt2sas > driver. What I should of probably said is my theory that firmware > might be blocking the IO queues when its in recovery mode due to the > ATA Passthru SMART commands that are failing.. In other words,maybe > firmware is turning off NCQ when ata passthru is sent, and that is > effecting the normal IO path, and the IO benchmark test the customer > is running which is taking 20 minutes (which it should be 20 > seconds).. I will have to ask the SATA experts when I'm back in the > office later in the week. The delay would not be in the driver > because its merely passing the command thru. Hi, I tried flashing the IT firmware on top of the IR firmware as suggestion on this LSI page: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16266.aspx I followed exactly the instructions but when trying to flash the fw I get this error: "Failed to validate MfgPage2 !" See the attached screen capture. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks
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