mpt request timed out

[Matthew Jacob]

>
>> Is it necessary to track further if all is okay after the first reset?
>>      
> Oh, I might have misunderstood what you where asking about;
> It works fine untill the next timeout occurrs. Could be a few hours, could
> be 5 minutes.
>
>    
Oh- okay.  Then I guess we'd better work on fixing it.

Can you describe the actually physical topology here? Is this an 
internal backplane?