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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:45:41 -0600
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> (resending with newer address for Daniel)
> Hi,
>
> Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>
> > While it is supposed to work, and did prior to .25, non-RAID devices
> > (in my case on the second channel) on this controller is the
> > affected use case. This is probably because of a change in the
> > driver that fails to address a bug in certain newer firmware, or a
> > previous patch for a bug in another card by the same vendor.
> > Moving the devices to a different controller entirely is a
> > workaround, if you have the hardware/slots to do it.
>
> Do I understand correctly that the kernel panics would occur with some
> firmware versions and not with others?
>
That was the case, yes.
> Do you still have access to the affected hardware? If so, how is it
> coping these days? Did later firmware updates or kernel upgrades
> change anything?
I no longer have the hardware. The drives were in a production system
that had to get rebuilt because of the issue, and I got gave away the
cards.
--
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping,
it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it
is.
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