Re: SuSE hwinfo/yast2 still confusing SYM53C8XX, killing tape backups

Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-11-29T11:16:52Z

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Steffen Winterfeldt schrieb am 2004-11-26:
>
> > It was indeed libsysfs reading the config space accidentally when one
> > (well, I) wouldn't expect it to do this.
> >
> > If you want to try the fixed hwinfo package (hwinfo-8.70), it's here:

[...]

> The hwinfo-8.70-0.2 update alone doesn't appear to help, I still see parity
> errors and still see 256-byte reads from
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/config (my SYM53C875's config space),
> strace below

They are from /sbin/raiddetect (same cause as in hwinfo - libsysfs usage).

> The kernel (vanilla 2.6.9) still begs that hwinfo be converted to SG_IO.

That warning was introduced after SL 9.1 was finished.

Steffen