From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: aic7xxx broken in 2.5.53/54 ? Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:23:04 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <703940000.1041999784@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> References: <20030103101618.GB8582@in.ibm.com> <596830816.1041606846@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20030106073204.GA1875@in.ibm.com> <274040000.1041869813@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20030108024107.GA1127@louise.pinerecords.com> Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030108024107.GA1127@louise.pinerecords.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Szepe Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> [gibbs@scsiguy.com] >> >> These reads are actually more expensive than just using PIO. Neither of >> these older drivers included a test to try and catch fishy behavior. > > Justin, are you quite sure that these tests actually work? > I too have just run into See my recent post to the SCSI list. The tests don't work on certain older controllers that lack a feature I was using. The latest csets submitted to Linus correct this problem (as verified on a dusty dual P-90 PCI/EISA box just added to our regression cluster). -- Justin