Xenial Kernel times out with recent Areca RAID controllers, kernel 4.5 has updated driver

[Martin Koniczek]

On 16.03.2016 11:52, Martin Koniczek wrote:
> Hello Xenial Team,
> 
> recent Areca RAID controllers, e.g. ARC-1882ix-24, still have severe
> issues with the arcmsr driver version v1.30.00.04-20140919 (either
> access to the RAID devices is lost right away, or after hours or days,
> usually involving timeout issues). The buggy driver is part of the
> vanilla linux kernel for a long time, and still present in 4.4.
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For closure of this thread on ubuntu-devel-discuss:

a bug report was filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1559609
and the xenial team released a fix in: linux (4.4.0-16.32) xenial