Jim,
Thank you for the explanation. I have 'discovered' that is a typical
situation that makes the system unstable.
Just for curiosity, this morning it happened again. Below, you can che
the log oupu. This time a HBA with LSI 1068E Chip, mpt driver, the
previous one was with a LSI 2008,
Markus,
After Jim's answer I have started to read bout the well known issue.
Is it just mpt causing the errors or also mpt_sas?
Both drivers are causing the reset storm (See my answer to Jim's e-mail).
General consensus from various people: don't use SATA drives on SAS back-
planes. Some
On May 31, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Antonio S. Cofiño wrote:
Markus,
After Jim's answer I have started to read bout the well known issue.
Is it just mpt causing the errors or also mpt_sas?
Both drivers are causing the reset storm (See my answer to Jim's e-mail).
No. Resets are corrective
just FYI
this is from intel
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-031831.htm
Another observation:
Oracle/Sun has move away from SATA to SAS in ZFS storage/Appliance
If you want to go deeper take look these presentations
http://www.scsita.org/sas_library/tutorials/
and other
