From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ADVANSYS] Add basic highmem/DMA support
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:35:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D77ED6.3080305@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087828082.1797.17.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 03:41, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>
>>I just tested it in lk 2.6.7-bk2 and the advansys driver is
>>broken. The disk access light stays on for several seconds
>>while it tries to read the partition table after which it
>>announces "unknown partition table". Since my rootfs is on
>>that disk it's all downhill from there.
>
>
> To be sure: the inquiry goes through and produces the correct result,
> and the read capacity, but then the read partition table fails?
Precisely.
> If so, I think that sounds like a failure in the use_sg != 0 path.
Yes. Grub is installed on the MBR of the SCSI disk in
question so it loads ok. The Advansys 2uw HBA works
ok in lk 2.6.7 but not lk 2.6.7-bk2 . I checked the
disk on another system (with a aic7xxx based controller)
and the disk does have a partition table and works ok.
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-08 0:39 [ADVANSYS] Add basic highmem/DMA support Herbert Xu
2004-05-19 10:38 ` Herbert Xu
2004-05-31 18:02 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-21 8:41 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-21 14:28 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-22 0:35 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2004-06-23 6:35 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-23 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:51 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-24 12:09 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-24 13:00 ` James Bottomley
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