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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: "Jose R. Santos" <jrsantos@austin.ibm.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: phase change messages cusing slowdown with sym53c8xx_2 driver
Date: 01 Dec 2004 15:43:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101933788.1930.226.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041201203226.GI5752@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 15:32, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:16:33PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > does this look like the "drive won't respond properly to PPR if the bus
> > is SE" problem again?
> 
> Thomas Babut who tested that fix reported it didn't solve his problem ;-(
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=109968716312783&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=109969829411685&w=2
> 
> I'm out of ideas for fixing that one.  Would you consider Richard
> Waltham's patch?
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109967237930243&w=2

Actually, yes, or the attached variant of it.  Does this solve the
problem?

There's no reason why we should assume a SCSI_3 or greater device
automatically supports ppr (especially if it's inquiry bit is
advertising that it doesn't...)

James

===== drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c 1.134 vs edited =====
--- 1.134/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c	2004-10-24 07:09:48 -04:00
+++ edited/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c	2004-12-01 15:41:03 -05:00
@@ -554,10 +554,8 @@
 	sdev->removable = (0x80 & inq_result[1]) >> 7;
 	sdev->lockable = sdev->removable;
 	sdev->soft_reset = (inq_result[7] & 1) && ((inq_result[3] & 7) == 2);
+	sdev->ppr = (sdev->inquiry_len > 56 && (inq_result[56] & 0x04) == 0x04);
 
-	if (sdev->scsi_level >= SCSI_3 || (sdev->inquiry_len > 56 &&
-		inq_result[56] & 0x04))
-		sdev->ppr = 1;
 	if (inq_result[7] & 0x60)
 		sdev->wdtr = 1;
 	if (inq_result[7] & 0x10)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-01 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-30  3:02 phase change messages cusing slowdown with sym53c8xx_2 driver Jose R. Santos
2004-12-01 16:56 ` Jose R. Santos
2004-12-01 17:16   ` James Bottomley
2004-12-01 20:32     ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-01 20:43       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-12-01 21:22         ` Jose R. Santos
2004-12-01 23:34         ` Doug Ledford

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