On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 14:03 -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > To make a very long debugging story short, I think there is an issues/bug > with the mvsas driver. It works, with older kernels, and breaks on > newer kernels. > > My Debian Jessie system was running great on a 3.18 kernel. Changed > cases to a newer supermicro case with a SAS expander backplane (SAS933EL). That > was the only hardware change. Now, when ever I boot, the system kernel panics. > > 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 works > 3.9.0 Gentoo CD works > 3.16+ all fail > Attached are 3 kernel panics on 3.16+ kernels. > > Motherboard is a Supermicro X8SIE, with a "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. > 88SE6440 SAS/SATA PCIe controller" > > Is this a known bug? Well, you're the only person that's reported it so far. I think based on the above is that your configuration is a single expander attached SATA device ... and if you move it to be non expander attached it works fine? > At this point I have two options: > Stick with the old kernel (yuck) > Buy a new card running a better supported chipset > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > Thanks You didn't specify: does 3.15 work? At least the highest working kernel version would help me narrow down potential problems. James -- 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
