Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread Freels, James D.
OK. Booted up great. Found the media changer. Here is the output from the check you asked for: target0:0:3: Beginning Domain Validation target0:0:3: asynchronous target0:0:3: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 32) target0:0:3: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:3: Ending Dom

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread Freels, James D.
Thanks James. It patched this time, compiled, and is now rebooting. I have a backup running tonight at 1am. I will report back in. This would be great if it fixes it. I also have another similar bug with the aic79xx driver on another machine (see my other bug reports). I wonder if this will fi

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:37 -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: > Here is what I get when I apply the patch against the vanilla 2.6.22.1 > source: The reject files all have spaces instead of tabs, so it looks like your mailer did some nefarious translation. Try the attachment ... that usually defeats

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread Freels, James D.
Here is what I get when I apply the patch against the vanilla 2.6.22.1 source: fea8:/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.1# patch -p1 <../new_aic_patch patching file drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 2284. Hunk #2 FAILED at 2368. Hunk #3 FAILED at 2450. Hunk #4 FAILED at 2490. Hunk #5 FAILED a

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:16 -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: > James, I would be glad to try the fix. I can grab the changes below, > but can you give me the patch command ? I know how to patch the > normal kernel sources. Is this a patch for 2.6.22.1 ? It was created against current git, but the

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:46 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:00 -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: > > 9) the output from the commands you asked for are shown below for the > > 2.6.22.1 kernel. They indicate parity errors on the changer at scsi > > id=3. Also, when booting up

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:00 -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: > 9) the output from the commands you asked for are shown below for the > 2.6.22.1 kernel. They indicate parity errors on the changer at scsi > id=3. Also, when booting up under 2.6.18.8, the linux media changer > scsi device works and in

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread Freels, James D.
Sorry for the previous HTML-formatted e-mails. This is now corrected. The first thing to realize is that this system only has three devices on the actual scsi bus to this adapter: 7 - adapter card 3 - Exabyte 1x10 autoloader 6 - Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive I only need 20 Mbps since the maximum spe

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:56 -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: > James, I have been out for a couple of days and could not try this > yet. > > Presently, the system is booted up under 2.6.18.8 which is not the > troublesome kernel. > > However, I tried your suggestion below, using max_width instead o

Re: [Bug 8366] aic79xx and aic7xxx driver issues

2007-07-24 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 18:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12126&action=view) > failed driver dmesg > > This driver fails at time of boot up. there are many scsi errors shown in the > output. It is the "new" aic7xxx driver. This is about the