Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

Hi,

I've been trying to get an AOC-SASLP-MV8 card (pcie x4 2 port SAS card) to 
work with linux for the past month or so. I've recently just RMAed my first 
card, and tested the new one under linux, and I see the same problems.

The very first time I made a new array off the controller, formated (with xfs) 
and mounted the volume, it seemed to work. ioozone even seemed to run for a 
while. Sadly after a few minutes I got a stream of mvs_abort_task messages in 
dmesg, and any accesses to the volume, or any disks connected to the 
controller lock up.

After that I updated my 2.6.31 kernel to 2.6.32-rc3-git2 off of kernel.org, 
and the volume fails to mount with the same mvs_abort_task messages.

I have the exact same problem with another Marvell 88SE64xx based card, 
namely an Areca ARC-1300ix-16 and the mvsas driver.
If the disks are just used alone, with a filesystem on them, all seems 
to work fine. dd and badblocks run fine on them. Mounting them, 
reading/writing work fine. The error seem to popup but rarely when 
several disks are used simultaneously.
But, an absolute sure way to trigger the error is to assemble (or 
create) a md raid array with the disks. I join a syslog extract from the 
error. You can see it happens seconds after the array creation.
I tried :
1) disabling the write cache on the disks => same error
2) disabling NCQ : in mv_sas.h :
#define MV_DISABLE_NCQ  1
same error.
Afer a while, the devices handled by the card are just dropped from the 
system and the card stops working at all, a reboot is necessary.

Does anyone have a working config based on a Marvell 64xx card ?

I'm willing to explore solutions, patches or anything, just tell me what 
to do to help.

Christian Vilhelm.

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