Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates

James Bottomley
2003-12-24T19:05:16Z

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 12:55, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> The last 10% is a change to having the driver completely do its own
> error recovery. This change originated in late July and has received
> extensive testing since then. This is the reason that a major driver
> version number bump was required for both drivers. It is just not
> possible to get sane error recovery behavior if the mid-layer ever
> sees a timeout, so this really is a *bug fix*.

Elaborate on this more please...the error handling has been
substantially revised between 2.4 and 2.6 with a view to making it more
robust. I don't recall seeing any bug reports from adaptec on the
issue, but if there's a mid-layer problem, I'm sure we can fix it.

James