Initialization timeouts in MPT driver

[Matthew Jacob]

On 10/6/2011 8:43 AM, Andrew Boyer wrote:
> When using mpt with a 1068e, a bad SATA SSD can prevent all other SATA drives from being recognized.  It takes about 45s for the controller to respond to the IOC initialization request with a bad drive installed, but the timeout for SAS controllers is 30s.

That's one way to do it. But it can fail also.

In my own version of the mpt2 driver, I changed the logic and allowed 
for ioc port initialization to complete at a later time. Dunno what mps 
does (never use it). Perhaps the same thing could be done for mpt. That 
said, this is probably not an unreasonable change.