Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:10:36 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> writes:
Doug> I just examined a more recent Areca SAS RAID controller and would Doug> describe it as the SCSI device from hell. One solution to this Doug> problem is to modify the arcmsr driver so it returns a more Doug> consistent set of lies to the management SCSI commands that Martin Doug> is asking about.
Yeah. This is quite the challenge given that the product id is user-specified and product revision hardcoded. I can match on "Areca" in the vendor id and that's about it :(
My current approach is to tweak the driver so that I can set skip_vpd_pages for the ATA models. Under the assumption that the SAS controllers actually feature the ATA Information VPD...
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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