Re: What breaks aic7xxx in post 2.6.12-rc2 ?

K.R. Foley
2005-05-19T03:07:59Z

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 22:38 +0530, Dinakar Guniguntala wrote:
>
>>May 9 12:03:32 llm09 kernel: Vendor: IBM CORP Model: GEM312 V002 Rev: 4.1b
>>May 9 12:03:32 llm09 kernel: Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
>
> OK, that's roughly what I was expecting. These processor chips tend to
> be rather basic when it comes to rates and widths.
>
> The root cause, I think, is that the aic7xxx isn't starting out at async
> narrow for the first inquiry (because the original DV code I removed did
> this, and I didn't add an equivalent back). The latest aic7xxx patch
> should sort this out.
>
> So, to get all of these changes, could you start with vanilla linus
> kernel 2.6.12-rc4 (or tree based on this, but not -mm which already has
> some of the SCSI tree included) and then apply the SCSI patch at
>
> http://parisc-linux.org/~jejb/scsi_diffs/scsi-misc-2.6.diff
>
> and see if it works?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>

James,

This also solves my problem that I reported in this thread
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=111422854418964&w=2

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kr