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From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: gdth SCSI driver(?) fails with more than 4GB of memory
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:27:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807152729.GS18390@mails.so.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153229420.3704.17.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

* James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com) [060718 15:37]:
> My strongest suspicion here is that the device is lying when it claims
> to support 64 bit DMA. Can you try this?  It will turn off 64 bit DMA
> and only allow 32 bit DMA on your 6GB platform.  If that works, we'll
> beed help from the gdth people to understand the issue.

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> index 43afd47..83cf3ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> @@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ static int __init gdth_init_pci(gdth_pci
>          if (prot_ver < 0x2b)      /* FW < x.43: no 64-bit DMA support */
>              ha->dma64_support = 0;
>          else 
> -            ha->dma64_support = 1;
> +            ha->dma64_support = 0;
>      }
>  
>      return 1;


Sorry, this patch didn't help me.


Cheers,
Andi
-- 
  http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-07 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18  1:46 Fw: gdth SCSI driver(?) fails with more than 4GB of memory Andrew Morton
2006-07-18  6:40 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-08-07 15:26   ` Andreas Barth
2006-08-08  8:49     ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-07-18 13:30 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-07 15:27   ` Andreas Barth [this message]

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