On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue November 10 2009, you wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking to replace a problematic Marvell PCIe SAS JBOD controller >> from Supermicro, type AOC-SASLP-MV8. (mdadm freaks out on it and the >> controller drops the drives - there has been discussion of the problem >> on the list. Seems to be a mvsas driver problem but seems to surface >> only under mdadm use.) >> >>... > > Not really an answer to your question, I got a snapshot of the in > development driver that seems to work just fine. I haven't run smartctl on > the controller much mind you, as it seems to freak out my onboard controller > too (AMD SB750). I could attempt it, but I've recently just switched over to > that hardware for my main server, and I'm reluctant to try running smartctl > on the array, as it'd probably require a reboot to get which ever disk back > that might get dropped. > That's quite interesting. Did you discuss this on a mailing list somewhere and have a link to that discussion? Or would you be willing to forward a message to honorable mr. driver guy? I'd love to try the patch before buying a new controller. Thanks! -- 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
