Hi Thomas, I've been trying to get an answer to this same question (I have a supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 too). See my post at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/30/107 . My only suggestion is to get a kernel that's pre 2.6.30 (my Thecus 5200 marvell based unit is on 2.6.13 and it seems okay). If the data is mission critical I certainly wouldn't be using the latest kernels in production until it had 6+months in a stress test environment (of course I'm an obsessive apt-get upgrade which makes me a hypocrite :-P). I can see from searching lkml.org for mvsas that there is a lot of code going in to this driver and unless your're a linux guru and can fix these problems I can only suggest you keep anything important on a =< 2.6.13 kernel and monitor the situation. Oh, and keep back ups ;-) (again here's me being the hypocrite). That's my plan :-( Simon On 13 January 2012 18:44, Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there chance this driver will ever be stable? After more than two years I'm > starting to get extremely frustrated. I don't really have the option at the > moment to get a new card, otherwise I would, likely a non marvell based > device. > > It actually managed to last 10 days this time though. Which is a record. The > interesting thing is there are no warnings or errors in dmesg coming from the > mvsas driver or scsi code. All that's happened is processes lock up when > trying to write. Reading seems to be fine. > > Just to refresh everyone's memory, it's a AOC-SASLP-MV8 card, has a > MV64460/64461/64462 chipset. And I have 7 (seagate 7200.12 SATA drives hooked > up). > > -- > Thomas Fjellstrom > thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.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
