Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-09-20 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert writes: [Sorry about the delay. Catching up on a couple of weeks worth of email] Bernd> So if anything else than a Seagate drive is connected to an Areca Bernd> controller with older firmware it will still fail. It's just blacklisting a specific Seagate drive. Ho

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-09-01 Thread Bernd Schubert
On 08/31/2013 09:48 PM, Nix wrote: > On 31 Aug 2013, Greg KH said: >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01:56AM +0100, Nix wrote: >>> On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said: >>> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-31 Thread Nix
On 31 Aug 2013, Greg KH said: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01:56AM +0100, Nix wrote: >> On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said: >> >> > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function >> > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became >> > easy. >> >

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-30 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01:56AM +0100, Nix wrote: > On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said: > > > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function > > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became > > easy. > > > > Nix, any chance you could verify

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-30 Thread Nix
On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said: > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became > easy. > > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you? As an aside, this commit does indeed fix th

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-26 Thread Bernd Schubert
Martin, sorry for my late reply, I entirely lost track of this (customer issues, vacation, lots of main work, ...). On 08/02/2013 05:00 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert writes: > > Bernd, > > Bernd> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other > B

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-03 Thread Nick Alcock
On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert stated: > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became > easy. > > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you? Confirmed, thank you! > Somehow older ar

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-02 Thread Nick Alcock
On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert told this: > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became > easy. > > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you? Sorry for the delay: it's hard for me

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-01 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert writes: Bernd, Bernd> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other Bernd> function calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that Bernd> fails fixing it became easy. Bernd> Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you? Do we get a

Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-01 Thread Bernd Schubert
Whoops, the title is wrong, it should have been: [PATCH] scsi disk: Limit get_vpd_page buf size On 08/01/2013 04:34 PM, Bernd Schubert wrote: Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became easy.

[PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

2013-08-01 Thread Bernd Schubert
Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became easy. Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you? From: Bernd Schubert Somehow older areca firmware versions have issues with scsi_get_v