> > > Well, perhaps not. Running the old firmware, 2.39, my install of 4.0 fails
> > > early on copying files:
> > >
> > > bus_dmamap_load : Too many segs! buf_len = 0x10000
> > > mlx0 : I/O error -- attempt to write beyond end of drive
> > >
> > > Any idea what these mean?
> >
> > The 2.x firmware only supports a very small number of scatter/gather
> > segments (17). It looks like someone's trying to do a non-page-aligned
> > 64kb transaction there and we're overflowing. Addressing this is
> > probably going to require a driver patch. 8(
>
> Ok. I know how I'm going to have to deal with this; the problem is that
> we only use 16 of the 17 available S/G segments (so I can pack the S/G
> tables without crossing page boundaries). This is going to take a little
> while to implement, unfortunately.
(Just to continue talking to myself) - The reason I never ran into this,
I realised, is that I did all my work on the 2.x firmware in Alpha
systems which have an 8k page size. With a 64k d_maxio, you'll never see
more than 9 segments.
Sorry about this.
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