From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [ADVANSYS] Add basic highmem/DMA support Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:35:34 +1000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40D77ED6.3080305@torque.net> References: <20040508003906.GA26338@gondor.apana.org.au> <20040519103800.GA9891@gondor.apana.org.au> <1086026538.2004.7.camel@mulgrave> <40D69F56.2000307@torque.net> <1087828082.1797.17.camel@mulgrave> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailhub2.uq.edu.au ([130.102.149.128]:32261 "EHLO mailhub2.uq.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266535AbUFVAgN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:36:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1087828082.1797.17.camel@mulgrave> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Herbert Xu , Gene Heskett , SCSI Mailing List , Andrew Morton James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 03:41, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > >>I just tested it in lk 2.6.7-bk2 and the advansys driver is >>broken. The disk access light stays on for several seconds >>while it tries to read the partition table after which it >>announces "unknown partition table". Since my rootfs is on >>that disk it's all downhill from there. > > > To be sure: the inquiry goes through and produces the correct result, > and the read capacity, but then the read partition table fails? Precisely. > If so, I think that sounds like a failure in the use_sg != 0 path. Yes. Grub is installed on the MBR of the SCSI disk in question so it loads ok. The Advansys 2uw HBA works ok in lk 2.6.7 but not lk 2.6.7-bk2 . I checked the disk on another system (with a aic7xxx based controller) and the disk does have a partition table and works ok. Doug Gilbert