I'm having a lot of troubles after adding a third AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card. Worked quite nicely with two, but with the third card I get a lot of [20190.510780] ata22.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [20190.511766] ata22.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT [20190.512660] ata22.00: cmd 35/00:80:68:fe:d0/00:00:10:01:00/e0 tag 17 dma 65536 out [20190.512660] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [20190.514557] ata22.00: status: { DRDY } [48052.265328] ata21.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [48052.266364] ata21.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT [48052.267344] ata21.00: cmd 35/00:00:a0:7a:dd/00:01:fc:00:00/e0 tag 29 dma 131072 out [48052.267344] res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [48052.269360] ata21.00: status: { DRDY } [91595.340801] ata21.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [91595.341809] ata21.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT [91595.342768] ata21.00: cmd 35/00:00:30:cb:4b/00:01:42:01:00/e0 tag 29 dma 131072 out [91595.342768] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [91595.344676] ata21.00: status: { DRDY } These two disks is (and it's always different disks), strangely enough (?), on the oldest card (which never shown any problems before - if it had been the newest, one could have considered hardware problems). And shortly after this, the kernel hard locks, forcing the hardware watchdog to reset the machine. This is, currently, kernel version 3.18-rc3 (I've tried so many versions the last couple of months), but I notice that the mvsas driver haven't had any real changes since 3.9 or there a bouts (one of the first that actually worked,w which I tried about a year or so ago). -- Geologists recently discovered that "earthquakes" are nothing more than Bruce Schneier and Chuck Norris communicating via a roundhouse kick-based cryptosystem. -- 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