Re: Some interesting results in the aic7xxx slowdown problem

2005-08-25 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:22:45AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:24 +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > sda: > > Well, this line is identifying the root cause. It says that the > partition code came up with no partitions for this device. Do any of > your other devi

Re: new qla2xxx driver breaks SAN setup with 2 controllers

2005-08-25 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, your patch works! first a box booting from a gdth: a01:~# lsscsi [0:0:0:0]diskICP Host Drive #00/dev/sda [0:2:6:0]process SUPERGEM318 0 - [1:0:0:10] diskIFT A16F-R1211 334B /dev/sdb [1:0:0:12] diskIFT A16F-R1

[patch] reenable megaraid legacy driver

2005-08-25 Thread Johann Hanne
Hi, this re-enables the megaraid legacy driver (drivers/scsi/megaraid.c) which is still completely in the kernel but is missing from drivers/scsi/Kconfig. Some devices are NOT supported by the newgen megaraid driver (e.g. the HP Netserver LH 3000 embedded Netraid) and the old driver still works fi

Re: qla2xxx: does not respond to SCSI_IOCTL_PROBE_HOST

2005-08-25 Thread Drew Winstel
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:13 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Not sure how we want to fix it, perhaps for backwards compatibility, > increment present regardless of the value of proc_info. > > Something like this, perhaps (untested)? Thanks for the patch, Andrew. It certainly appears to work (the

Re: qla2xxx: does not respond to SCSI_IOCTL_PROBE_HOST

2005-08-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:13:48PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > /proc support has been stripped from the qla2xxx driver. So, > hostt->present is never incremented: > > void scsi_proc_hostdir_add(struct scsi_host_template *sht) > { > if (!sht->proc_info) >

Re: qla2xxx: does not respond to SCSI_IOCTL_PROBE_HOST

2005-08-25 Thread Drew Winstel
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:09 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > And while we're at it we should add deprecation warnings for most of > the crufy ioctls in scsi_ioctl.c.. > Pardon my ignorance, but to which ioctls are you referring? Are practically all the ioctls now just junk, or is there a list so

Re: [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class

2005-08-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Luben Tuikov wanted... to move _away_ from HCIL. So that addressing of devices in SCSI Core is _completely_ independent of addressing at the protocol layer. I second that. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=-= =--- ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class

2005-08-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stefan Richter wrote: Luben Tuikov wanted... to move _away_ from HCIL. So that addressing of devices in SCSI Core is _completely_ independent of addressing at the protocol layer. I second that. A move away from forced HCIL addressing would be a good thing. However, its impossible to com

Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5117] New: Panic when accessing scsi-tapedrives with 4G-remap

2005-08-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:53:38 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5117] New: Panic when accessing scsi-tapedrives with 4G-remap http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5117 Summary: Panic when accessing scsi

2.6: how do I this in sysfs?

2005-08-25 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
I've been asked to pass this on for some kind of clarification. We have management apps requiring specific information from the Smart Array controller. We're trying to use sysfs to accomplish the task. An example of what we need to do is below. I'm sure some of you will recognize this as CSMI. The

Re: 2.6: how do I this in sysfs?

2005-08-25 Thread Andrew Patterson
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:52 -0500, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > I've been asked to pass this on for some kind of clarification. > We have management apps requiring specific information from the Smart > Array controller. We're trying to use sysfs to accomplish the task. An > example of what we ne

Re: 2.6: how do I this in sysfs?

2005-08-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> > typedef struct _CSMI_SAS_IDENTIFY { > >__u8 bDeviceType; > >__u8 bRestricted; > >__u8 bInitiatorPortProtocol; > >__u8 bTargetPortProtocol; > >__u8 bRestricted2[8]; > >__u8 bSASAddress[8]; > >__u8 bPhyIdentifier; > >__u8 bSignalClass; > >__u8 bReserve

Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5117] New: Panic when accessing scsi-tapedrives with 4G-remap

2005-08-25 Thread Willem Riede
On 08/25/2005 08:24:17 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5117] New: Panic when accessing scsi-tapedrives with 4G-remap http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5117 Summary: Panic when accessing scsi-tapedrives with 4G-remap Kernel Version: 2.6.12.5 C

[RFC] SCSI EH document

2005-08-25 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, fellow SCSI/ATA developers. This is the first draft of SCSI EH document. This document tries to describe how SCSI EH works and what choirs should be done to maintain SCSI midlayer integrity. It's intended that this document can be used as reference for implementing either fine-grained E