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2005-02-17 Thread Fornalczyk Robert
Enlarge staying power & fortitude http://Mielnick.jrz874383w.com/cs/?theman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Kernel deadlock ??

2005-02-17 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:03:04PM -0800, Mark Harvey wrote: > I also do not understand what 'Rusty Russel refers to as being in user > context (Unreliable Guide to Hacking the Linux kernel)' Chapter 5: > Recipes for Deadlock. >From the same Unreliable Guide ... User Context User c

Re: [PATCH as468] Retry supposedly "unrecoverable" hardware errors

2005-02-17 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:27 +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Recent SPC-3 and SBC-2 drafts treat the sense keys of > MEDIUM ERROR and HARDWARE ERROR in a similar way. > Both can return an "info" field which has the same > meaning (lba of first failure). The distinction is that > MEDIUM ERROR is a li

Re: [PATCH as468] Retry supposedly "unrecoverable" hardware errors

2005-02-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > ... after a bit further thought, a retry (arguably) is only > needed when an unrecoverable (data) error is detected. If we > assume the "info" field indicates an unrecoverable error > then the following patch combines the processing of > MEDIUM and HAR

sym53c8xx driver hangs

2005-02-17 Thread Roger HÃ¥kansson
I have a machine with a Tekram DC-390U2W and a HP Surestore 1/9 Autoloader (with a Ultrium-1 drive) attached . I've tried to get it to work with FC3(2.6.10-1.766_FC3) with no luck. I've also tested it with Knoppix-3.3(2.4.24) and it works just fine (output from test-dump in dump.txt and from dmes

Re: What is SCSI command 0xa0 ?

2005-02-17 Thread Samuel Colin
The Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:42:18 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good. The patch below ought to accomplish the same thing as that "echo" > command. You can try patching your kernel and make sure that it really > works. If it does, I'll submit the patch for official inclusion

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [17/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
OSM header file. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_osm.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_osm.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_osm.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1375 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for Linux. + * + * Writ

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [16/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
OSM code. Part 3/3. + +/* + * Function: + * asd_pci_dev_remove() + * + * Description: + * This routine is called when the controller is removed or during + * module unloading. + */ +static void +asd_pci_dev_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) +{ + struct asd_softc *asd; + unsigned long flags; + + a

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [15/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
OSM code. Part 2/3. + +ASD_COMMAND_BUILD_STATUS +asd_setup_data(struct asd_softc *asd, struct scb *scb, Scsi_Cmnd *cmd) +{ + struct asd_ssp_task_hscb *ssp_hscb; + struct sg_element *sg; + int dir; + int error; + + /* + * All SSP, STP, and SATA SCBs have their direction + * flags and SG

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [14/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
OSM code. Part 1/3. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_osm.c b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_osm.c --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_osm.c 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1923 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for Linux. + * + * W

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [13/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
IOCTL header file. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_ioctl.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_ioctl.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_ioctl.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,277 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA driver for Linux - IOCTL data s

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [12/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
IOCTL code. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_ioctl.c b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_ioctl.c --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_ioctl.c 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1041 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA driver for Linux - IOCTL interface fo

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [10/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hardware interface header file. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_hwi.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_hwi.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_hwi.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1242 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for Linux

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [11/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Inline functions. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_inline.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_inline.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_inline.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1075 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for Linux. + *

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [08/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hardware interface. Part 2/3. + +/* + * Function: + * asd_hwi_process_prim_event() + * + * Description: + * Process any recevied primitives that are not handled by the + * firmware (eg. BROADCAST, HARD_RESET, etc.) + */ +static void +asd_hwi_process_prim_event(struct asd_softc *asd, struct asd_p

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [09/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hardware interface. Part 3/3. + +static void +asd_hwi_reset_device_done(struct asd_softc *asd, struct scb *scb, + struct asd_done_list *dl) +{ + asd_log(ASD_DBG_ERROR, "DL Opcode = 0x%x.\n", dl->opcode); + + /* + * There is a possibility that this post routine is called after + * the S

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [07/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hardware interface. Part 1/3. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_hwi.c b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_hwi.c --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_hwi.c 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1976 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for Linux.

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [02/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
The drivers' Kconfig and Makefile. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/Kconfig --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/Kconfig 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,1 +1,12 @@ +# +# adp94xx 2.5.x kernel configuration file. +# +# $Id: //depot/razor/

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [01/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Adding a menu option in Kconfig and a compilation directive in Makefile in SCSI. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ source "drivers/scsi/aic

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [0/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hi, Adaptec would like to announce its SAS/SATA Linux device driver for inclusion into the Linux kernel. The driver supports Adaptec's AIC-94XX chip based, eight port SAS and SATA 64-bit PCI-X, 133MHz ASIC controller. The driver source is presented as a broken up BK patch over the latest scsi-misc-

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [18/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hardware registers macro definitions. Part 1/2. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_reg.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_reg.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_reg.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1224 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [19/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Hardware registers macro definitions. Part 2/2. +#define LmMnSATAFS(LinkNum, Mode) LmSEQ_PHY_REG(Mode, LinkNum, 0x7E) +#define LmMnXMTSIZE(LinkNum, Mode) LmSEQ_PHY_REG(Mode, LinkNum, 0x93) + +/* mode 0 */ +#define LmMnFRMERR(LinkNum, Mode) LmSEQ_PHY_REG(Mode, LinkNum, 0xB0) + +#define LmACRCERR

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [20/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
SAS header file definitions. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sas.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sas.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sas.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1101 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for Linux. +

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [21/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Anything SATA related. Part 1/2. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sata.c b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sata.c --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sata.c 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1891 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [23/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Anything SATA related header file. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sata.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sata.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_sata.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,756 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device driver for

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [22/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Anything SATA related. Part 2/2. + +ASD_COMMAND_BUILD_STATUS +asd_sata_control_mode_select( +struct asd_softc *asd, +struct asd_device *dev, +struct scb *scb, +uint8_t *bufptr +) +{ + if (bufptr[1] != (CONTROL_MODE_PAGE_LEN - 2)) { + return ASD_COMMAND_BUILD_FAILED; + } + + /* + * T10/04-136

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [24/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Communicating with the sequencers. Part 1/2. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_seq.c b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_seq.c --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_seq.c 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,1470 @@ +/* + * Adaptec ADP94xx SAS HBA device dr

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [25/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
Communicating with the sequencers. Part 2/2. + +/* + * Function: + * asd_hwi_post_init_cseq() + * + * Description: + * Clear CSEQ Mode n Interrupt status and Response mailbox. + */ +static void +asd_hwi_post_init_cseq(struct asd_softc *asd) +{ + u_int i; + + for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { + asd_hwi

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [26/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
The sequencer programs. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_seq.h b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_seq.h --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/adp94xx_seq.h 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,2840 @@ +/* + * Central and Link Sequencer Code for AIC-94xx + * Vers

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [27/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
The readme file. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/readme.txt b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/readme.txt --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/readme.txt 2005-02-16 16:08:12 -05:00 @@ -0,0 +1,289 @@ + +=

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [03/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Luben, Your emails do not comply with the Linux kernel patch submission format. Please read http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html Most critical is rule number #5 (signed-off-by line), but also important is rule number #1 (providing a useful subject line). NOTE: I am _not_ requesting that yo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [03/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 02/17/05 14:17, Jeff Garzik wrote: A key point is that it is impossible to differentiate your 27 patches, from looking at them in a email summary. Putting a short summary of each patch in the email subject line greatly assists those reviewing your code. Ok, that makes sense. I wish I had ad

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [03/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 02/17/05 14:03, Jeff Garzik wrote: Luben, Your emails do not comply with the Linux kernel patch submission format. Please read http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html Most critical is rule number #5 (signed-off-by line), but also important is rule number #1 (providing a useful subject lin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [03/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Luben Tuikov wrote: On 02/17/05 14:03, Jeff Garzik wrote: Luben, Your emails do not comply with the Linux kernel patch submission format. Please read http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html Most critical is rule number #5 (signed-off-by line), but also important is rule number #1 (providing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [0/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:34:41PM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote: > Hi, > > Adaptec would like to announce its SAS/SATA Linux device driver > for inclusion into the Linux kernel. > > The driver supports Adaptec's AIC-94XX chip based, eight port SAS > and SATA 64-bit PCI-X, 133MHz ASIC controller. >

Re: [RFC] target code updates to support scanned targets

2005-02-17 Thread Andrew Vasquez
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > > Well, how about a different format for this, so there's a > > scsi_remove_target that takes a generic device (analogous to the > > scsi_scan_target) except that this time if the device isn't a target, we >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc3-bk5, oops in scsi_try_bus_reset

2005-02-17 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Feb 14, Alan Stern wrote: > https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/pipermail/usb-storage/2004-November/001201.html Alan, this patch seems to fix the crashes. Is it ready for production use, or should I wait for a differnt patch? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc3-bk5, oops in scsi_try_bus_reset

2005-02-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, Alan Stern wrote: > > > https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/pipermail/usb-storage/2004-November/001201.html > > Alan, > > this patch seems to fix the crashes. Is it ready for production use, or > should I wait for a differnt patch? It has

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc3-bk5, oops in scsi_try_bus_reset

2005-02-17 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Feb 17, Alan Stern wrote: > It hasn't been tested very much. (Would you like to be a beta tester? :-) Lets just throw it at the customers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [22/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Comment: You should use libata for your ATA<->SCSI translation. Doing so eliminates duplicate code, and ensures that you are compliant with the SAT and ATA passthru specifications from T10. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a mes

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [27/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
Luben Tuikov wrote: The readme file. diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/readme.txt [] +=README for= += Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 = += Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 = +

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [27/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:31:31PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Luben Tuikov wrote: > >The readme file. > > > >diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/adp94xx/readme.txt > [] > >+=README for= > >+= Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [0/27]

2005-02-17 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 12:34 -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote: > Adaptec would like to announce its SAS/SATA Linux device driver > for inclusion into the Linux kernel. Well, the initial reaction is yuk. Just from a brief glance over the files, the code is full of obfuscation and unnecessary compatibility

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [17/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Andi Kleen
Luben Tuikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +/** Misc Macros > ***/ [... lots of code...] What are they all good for? As far as I can see every one of them duplicates or wraps something Linux already has. How about you just use the na

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [0/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 02/17/05 15:57, James Bottomley wrote: Well, the initial reaction is yuk. Just from a brief glance over the files, the code is full of obfuscation and unnecessary compatibility gunk which needs removing. It's also full of the same queueing junk that I asked be taken out of the aic7xxx driver. Th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [17/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 02/17/05 16:08, Andi Kleen wrote: Luben Tuikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: +/** Misc Macros ***/ [... lots of code...] What are they all good for? As far as I can see every one of them duplicates or wraps something Linux already has.

Magical ansi scsi revision (was Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: What is SCSI command 0xa0 ?)

2005-02-17 Thread Samuel Colin
The Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:59:40 +0100 Samuel Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know why. Do you want to turn on usb-storage verbose debugging > > in the 2.6.8 kernel, and run it on that other machine? > > [...] > > It's hard to say, since there are so many things being changed all the >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [03/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Tokarev
Jeff Garzik wrote: Luben, [] Everyone who submits patches to Linux needs to include a signed-off-by line, and format their emails such that automated scripts will process the emails correctly. BTW, as this is a completely new driver (for the kernel source anyway), and there's no "patch" per se he

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [17/27]

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Luben Tuikov wrote: Yes, that's true. The driver was written to compile for 2.4 as well as for 2.6. Typically what you want to do is target 2.6, and isolate/emulate missing functionality in 2.4.x in a compatibility file. This compatibility file/lib would not exist in 2.6 kernel, but you can gi

Re: Magical ansi scsi revision (was Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: What is SCSI command 0xa0 ?)

2005-02-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Samuel Colin wrote: > Anyway, I have interesting results for the scsi devel list : > > > Feb 17 21:19:09 gnondpom kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage > devices > Feb 17 21:19:09 gnondpom kernel: Vendor: WDC WD25 Model: > 00JB-00FUA0 Rev: 15.0 > Fe

[PATCH as470] Add a NOREPORTLUN blacklist flag

2005-02-17 Thread Alan Stern
James: This patch adds a NOREPORTLUN blacklist flag for a disk made by "WDC" (Winchester?). The drive's firmware crashes when it receives REPORT_LUNS, even though it claims to be SCSI rev 04. Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c 1.14 vs

Re: Magical ansi scsi revision (was Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: What is SCSI command 0xa0 ?)

2005-02-17 Thread Samuel Colin
The Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:23:54 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that explains why you had problems starting with 2.6.10! > > The explanation is simple enough, and it can be found in a line from your > logs: > > Feb 17 21:19:09 gnondpom kernel: usb-storage: Fixing INQUIRY

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [0/27]

2005-02-17 Thread David Chaw
Hi all, Thanks for the all responses for this driver. I really appreciate the comments / suggestions. We definetely looking to making changes in the next few weeks. Thanks again, david On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:14:36 -0500, Luben Tuikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/17/05 15:57, James Bottom

Re: [PATCH as468] Retry supposedly "unrecoverable" hardware errors

2005-02-17 Thread Douglas Gilbert
James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:27 +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: Recent SPC-3 and SBC-2 drafts treat the sense keys of MEDIUM ERROR and HARDWARE ERROR in a similar way. Both can return an "info" field which has the same meaning (lba of first failure). The distinction is that MEDIUM

Re: sym53c8xx driver hangs

2005-02-17 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:51:44PM +0100, Roger HÃ¥kansson wrote: > I've seen that there are more people having similar problem and some > patches have also been suggested, but I haven't tested any of them yet. Yeah, I don't think any existing patch will help you. Could you try this one? Index: