Avoton server occasionally fails to boot when using SSD disks
connected using ahci driver. When this problem occurs, the disk is
not recognized by the Linux kernel, and the server fails to boot.
* Upstream acceptance information:
Intel's patch has already been accepted upstream
commit dbfe8ef5599a5370abc441fcdbb382b656563eb4
Author: Dan Williams <email address hidden>
Date: Fri May 8 15:23:55 2015 -0400
ahci: avoton port-disable reset-quirk
It was brought to my attention the following BUG:
Avoton server occasionally fails to boot when using SSD disks
connected using ahci driver. When this problem occurs, the disk is
not recognized by the Linux kernel, and the server fails to boot.
* Upstream acceptance information:
Intel's patch has already been accepted upstream 0abc441fcdbb382 b656563eb4
commit dbfe8ef5599a537
Author: Dan Williams <email address hidden>
Date: Fri May 8 15:23:55 2015 -0400
ahci: avoton port-disable reset-quirk
Refer to http:// permalink. gmane.org/ gmane.linux. kernel. commits. head/524068
* How reproducible:
About once per 5000 reboots on one server. However, if the customer
has several hundred servers, the frequency isn't negligible.
* Steps to Reproduce:
Reboot server.