Re: Fw: gdth SCSI driver(?) fails with more than 4GB of memory

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com) [060718 15:37]:
> My strongest suspicion here is that the device is lying when it claims
> to support 64 bit DMA. Can you try this?  It will turn off 64 bit DMA
> and only allow 32 bit DMA on your 6GB platform.  If that works, we'll
> beed help from the gdth people to understand the issue.

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> index 43afd47..83cf3ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> @@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ static int __init gdth_init_pci(gdth_pci
>          if (prot_ver < 0x2b)      /* FW < x.43: no 64-bit DMA support */
>              ha->dma64_support = 0;
>          else 
> -            ha->dma64_support = 1;
> +            ha->dma64_support = 0;
>      }
>  
>      return 1;


Sorry, this patch didn't help me.


Cheers,
Andi
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