Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:22:25 -0700 From: Mattew Jacob <mj@feral.com> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Initialization timeouts in MPT driver Message-ID: <4E94CFB1.2060502@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8DD071.9060705@feral.com> References: <CDA323AC-295D-4DA8-A8C2-B550664947F3@averesystems.com> <4E8DD071.9060705@feral.com>
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On 10/6/2011 8:59 AM, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 10/6/2011 8:43 AM, Andrew Boyer wrote: >> When using mpt with a 1068e, a bad SATA SSD can prevent all other >> SATA drives from being recognized. It takes about 45s for the >> controller to respond to the IOC initialization request with a bad >> drive installed, but the timeout for SAS controllers is 30s. > > That's one way to do it. But it can fail also. > > In my own version of the mpt2 driver, I changed the logic and allowed > for ioc port initialization to complete at a later time. Dunno what > mps does (never use it). Perhaps the same thing could be done for mpt. > That said, this is probably not an unreasonable change. Has anyone else followed up on this?
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