On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 08:51:02AM +0100, Tim Small wrote: > It was a Marvell 9125 AHCI card (highpoint branded), and I've had > numerous problems with them locking up (the 9123s are worse), and have > scrapped all of the Marvell 9123s already, and gone back to using a > combination of Marvell's 88SX7042 (non-AHCI) cards, and Silicon Image > 3132 etc. cards. FWIW, I have a Marvell 9123[1] in one of my systems and found that disabling NCQ on the two drives hooked to it[2] stopped any funnies. Agreed, it's not the best of adapters, but it's been rock solid for the year or so since I made that change. [1] "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9123 PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller (rev 10)" [2] A pair of WD Scorpio Blacks in an md RAID1 set -mj -- Michael-John Turner mj@xxxxxxxxxxxx <> http://mjturner.net/ -- 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
