Re: 2.5.63-mm2

[Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>]

Thanks for trying this Patrick. I have added this to my list of systems
available that display error handling signatures for future testing.

Patrick Mansfield [patmans@us.ibm.com] wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:52:31AM -0800, Mike Anderson wrote:
> > The patch below fixed the problem on my system. I had my list empty
> > checks reversed if aborting and bus device reset failed. The condition
> > that causes the error handler to run is still unknown. I will look at it
> > when I get a chance.
> 
> Mike -
> 
> With your patch, I am able to boot again using the feral driver with an
> isp1020 (on a NUMAQ system).
> 
> Though I still do not know why the feral gets a time out but qlogicisp
> does not. It is apparently a read that times out while mounting root for
> the first time (readonly), so this is not the first read sent to the drive
> (partition code should have sent a read). It could be the queue_depth
> settings (qlogicisp sets to 1, I have feral setting them to 16).
> 
-andmike
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Michael Anderson
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