On Wed November 11 2009, Richard Scobie wrote: > Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > Thats the problem he was trying to get away from. the MV8 controller > > likes to offline disks when a few smart commands arrive. at least with > > the main kernel drivers. But then the main kernel mvsas drivers decide > > to give up if you even attempt to start a raid array on them. The > > controller locks up and you have to reboot. Most of the time a reboot > > even fails when it tries to sync the block devices, so a hard reset is > > in order. > > OK, I did not know the Marvell controller also has a problem with > smartmontools. Given the state of the in kernel drivers, its probably a driver issue. > In his original post he mentions it having problems with mdadm: > > "(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.)" > > Regards, > > Richard > -- > 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 > -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- 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
