Just a note; I've got a lot of experience with the 1068E controller. Make sure you're running a recent firmware.
I have 1.33.00, "Phase 21", flashed on most of my 1068Es of various vendor brands. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.0 Versions at Phase 20 (1.32.00 and below) had significant issues while negotiating link speeds for me, I could either get everything running fine at 1.5/3Gbit and all the drives worked, or I would get 6Gbit and all the older drives would be missing. I believe the latest dell-branded firmware is: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=8R2N4&fileId=3098294144&osCode=LNUX&productCode=poweredge-r300&languageCode=EN&categoryId=SF Unfortunately, it seems to come only as an .exe, but I didn't try to download it. I've got two 1068Es paired up with HP SAS Expanders: http://www.amazon.com/HP-468406-B21-Sas-Expander-Card/dp/B0025ZQ16K At one point I tried to connect I think about 60 drives (If I recall correctly, I got up to /dev/sdbd) Getting that working properly was another firmware hassle story involving purchasing a used HP server just to flash it; but I won't bore you with it in a LP bug# comment. But still -- out of date firmware can lead to wacky results. Good luck convincing Kay to raise the udev timeout from 30sec! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276705 Title: Kernel 3.13 fail to boot with LSI SAS1068E (Dell SAS 6/iR) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1276705/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
