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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.3 hangs when writing to scsi-dvd
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:25:31 +0100
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To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Joachim Feise <jfeise@ics.uci.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Frank Pieczynski <pieczy@web.de>

On Mon, Feb 23 2004, Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 23 2004, Kai Makisara wrote:
> ...
> > > I hope someone sees no where the real problem is.
> > 
> > SCSI io completion path (sr/sd/st rw_intr() -> scsi_io_completion() ->
> > scsi_end_request()) doesn't properly handle non-sector aligned data
> > transfers. This patch should fix it up. Warning: untested.
> > 
> Now it is slightly tested: it works with my SCSI tape test program. Since 
> the program only does an inquiry, I tried it with the SCSI system disk 
> without problems. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a SCSI CDROM now.

Great, that's promising (code like this tends to either break at first
access, or work :-). Thanks for testing.

-- 
Jens Axboe