From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: Another SCSI Sync Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:10:03 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030305181003.GC1090@beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1046315953.1834.177.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org I am looking at this now. I switched my config from new AIC to old AIC and see a failure similar to what Andrew Morton was seeing when he switched. It looks to be a bug in error handling while probing. Linus Torvalds [torvalds@transmeta.com] wrote: > > Hmm.. Some part of the last syncs seem to break for a lot of people. See > the linux kernel mailing list. One report (Rob Radez ) > chased it down some: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:42:41PM -0600, David van Hoose wrote: > > Kernels 2.5.63 and 2.5.64 lock up when displaying the information for my > > ZipDrive during SCSI probe. Attached is my .config for 2.5.64. > > I suspect I'm seeing something similar. On SPARC, I'm getting a hang > after displaying the information for my SCSI CD-ROM drive. > > scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31200W SUN1.05 Rev: 8724 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32155W SUN2.1G Rev: 8456 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM-4101TASUNSLCD Rev: 1755 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > > Worked fine in 2.5.62, hangs in 2.5.63. Reverting the scsi changes > listed at > http://osinvestor.com/sparc/patch/2.5.63-revertscsi.diff > allows 2.5.63 to boot. > > Please check it out.. The common thread seems to be "non-disk". > > Linus > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com