Hi, With respect to:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/26/335 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831 It would appear that it's unsafe to carry out ATA-passthrough operations on SAS5* and SAS6* controllers (1068 / 1068E and others). This definitely affects smartctl, and I'm assuming it has the potential to impact operations such as drive firmware updates - locking up the controller during a firmware update seems like it could be a Bad Thing. Could someone at Dell take a look at this issue and see if their Linux firmware update packages could be impacted? If they are impacted, I guess they should be withdrawn until a workaround can be put in place... Thanks, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
