Hardware: HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 with 2 SSD 100G and 2 HD SATA 3TB, configured in HBA mode, no HW RAID set up. I boot on the Debian 8 installer, then - load hpsa - create one partition on each of the SSD - create a soft RAID 1 using mdadm on those 2 partition - raid synchronize successfully - create a pv, then a vg on this raid without problem - doing mkswap on a LV without problem - doing mkfs.ext4 on a LV -> the process HANG dmesg gives: [ 1490.566398] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: Abort request on C6:B2:T0:L0 [ 1490.566819] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: ABORT REQUEST on C6:B2:T0:L0 Tag:0x00000000:00000030 Command:0x42 SN:0x1687d9 REQUEST SUCCEEDED. [ 1540.309302] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: ABORT REQUEST on C6:B2:T0:L0 Tag:0x00000000:00000030 Command:0x42 SN:0x1687d9 FAILED. Aborted command has not completed after 30 seconds. [ 1540.309319] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: Abort request on C6:B2:T1:L0 [ 1540.345047] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: ABORT REQUEST on C6:B2:T1:L0 Tag:0x00000000:00000010 Command:0x42 SN:0x1687d8 REQUEST SUCCEEDED. [ 1588.796036] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: ABORT REQUEST on C6:B2:T1:L0 Tag:0x00000000:00000010 Command:0x42 SN:0x1687d8 FAILED. Aborted command has not completed after 30 seconds. [ 1588.796090] hpsa 0000:03:00.0: resetting device 6:2:0:0 the mkfs process doesn't finish and I can no longer access disks (parted, etc..) I can repeat this on two identical servers. I looked at kernel changelogs and did not see anything that may fix this on recent releases.
see a similar bug with kernel 4.14 on ProLiant DL120 G7 and ProLiant DL380 G6. The installation hang all the time with loop: module loaded I see "seq 1481 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:04:00.0' is taking a long time" in the log,and that is a hpsa disk. Actually,the installer will hang there after you run "modprobe hpsa".