Created attachment 112991 [details] dmesg log Apparently there's a non-public SUSE bug report for this. Jiri Kosina reported it here [1]. Starting with d5dea7d95 ("PCI: msi: Disable msi interrupts when we initialize a pci device"), 3w-9xxx times out because the device doesn't respond: 3w-9xxx 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 32 (level, low) -> IRQ 32 3w-9xxx: scsi4: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xbad00000, IRQ: 32. scsi 4:0:0:0: WARNING: (0x06:0x002C): Command (0x12) timed out, resetting card. Reverting d5dea7d95 makes the device work properly. Full dmesg log attached. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1308271141080.2077@pobox.suse.cz
Created attachment 113001 [details] lspci -vv
I think this is a 3w-9xxx driver defect, so I'm reassigning to SCSI. Here's my rationale (from the email thread mentioned above): ... twa_probe() looks strange to me. The other drivers I looked at do all their PCI initialization before the scsi_host_alloc() / scsi_add_host() / scsi_scan_host() stuff. But twa_probe() has PCI stuff scattered around between those three SCSI calls. In particular, it does the MSI setup way down near the end, after scsi_add_host(), which seems like just the sort of thing that could explain this problem. Let me know if this seems like the wrong thing to do.