> o The problems are not seen with Sun's version of
>  this card

Unable to comment as I don't have a Sun card here. If Sun would like to send me 
one, I would be willing to test it compared to the cards I do have. I'm running 
Supermicro USAS-L8i cards (LSI 1068e based). 

> o The problems are not seen with LSI's version of
>  the driver

I haven't tried it as comments from Sun staff here have indicated that it's not 
a good idea. 

> o The problems are seen with the latest LSI
> firmware

Yes. When I checked, the LSI site was listing the version I see at boot. 

> o Errors still occur if MSIs are disabled.  

I haven't seen any command timeout errors since disabling MSIs. I tried using 
the command to disable MSI only for the MPT driver, but I get a similar error 
from the NVidia driver at that point as it has my boot drives. It seems to me 
that the issue seems to have more in common with MSIs than the drivers 
themselves. I do have a scrub scheduled for 12/1, so I can check the logs after 
than to see if it appears from that. My other tests have not triggered the 
issue since disabling MSIs. I'm currently running with "set 
xpv_psm:xen_support_msi = -1".

I am not using any jbod enclosures. My setup uses SAS to SATA breakout cables 
and connect directly to the drives. I have tried different cables and lengths. 
The timeouts affected drives in a seemingly random fashion. I would get 
timeouts on both controllers and every drive over time.

I have never had command errors here. Just the timeouts.
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