https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81861

--- Comment #6 from linux-...@crashplan.pro ---
When connecting just a single 4 drive group to the good ports (for example 2C)
of the external PCIe expander card:
cold boot = doesn't detect any of the 4 PUIS drives
warm boot = does detect all 4 PUIS drives

When powering up using the warm boot method there don't seem to be errors
reported by smartctl neither sg_ses.

However this cold boot issue might be a different issue from this kernel crash.
According to debug messages first a "Set Features" (0xEF) is being sent. My
guess is that this set features issues subcommand (0x07): spin up media.

And later on the "Identify Device" (0xEC) is sent.


When I correctly read the Hitachi specification the Spin Up (Set Features)
should be sent after "Drive Identify". For this Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630 the
Drive_Identify (# sg_sat_identify -v /dev/sdb) word 2 outputs "738c" (hex),
which translates to specification "Need Set Feature for spin-up after power-up
Identify Device is complete" according to HGST specification page 127.

Is there a boot parameter (or similar way) to load the mvsas driver without
sending the "Set Features" (0xEF) command?

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