Bug#598793: sas controller resets causes drives to fail under mdadm

2010-10-02 Thread Bjørn Mork
Quintin writes: > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 > Version: 2.6.26-24lenny1 > Severity: important > > The mpt SAS controller seems to misinterpret messages from the SATA > drives connected to the SAS controller - causing mdadm to remove them > from the array. The net result during this e

Bug#598793: sas controller resets causes drives to fail under mdadm

2010-10-02 Thread Quintin
This patch has been running: while true; do smartctl -a /dev/sdb > /dev/null; done overnight without fault, under ordinary conditions I can reproduce within seconds. On 02/10/10 23:56, Bjørn Mork wrote: > which was included in Debian linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 version > 2.6.32-24. You should che

Bug#598793: sas controller resets causes drives to fail under mdadm

2010-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 10:24 +1300, Quintin wrote: > This patch has been running: while true; do smartctl -a /dev/sdb > > /dev/null; done overnight without fault, under ordinary conditions I > can reproduce within seconds. [...] > I am more than happy to backport & maintain this patch out of band.