From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262456AbVESDIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 23:08:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262458AbVESDIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 23:08:10 -0400 Received: from relay03.pair.com ([209.68.5.17]:39954 "HELO relay03.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262456AbVESDH7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 23:07:59 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 24.241.238.70 Message-ID: <428C030E.8030102@cybsft.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:07:58 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: dino@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , gregoire.favre@gmail.com, Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: What breaks aic7xxx in post 2.6.12-rc2 ? References: <20050516085832.GA9558@gmail.com> <20050517071307.GA4794@in.ibm.com> <20050517002908.005a9ba7.akpm@osdl.org> <1116340465.4989.2.camel@mulgrave> <20050517170824.GA3931@in.ibm.com> <1116354894.4989.42.camel@mulgrave> In-Reply-To: <1116354894.4989.42.camel@mulgrave> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 22:38 +0530, Dinakar Guniguntala wrote: > >>May 9 12:03:32 llm09 kernel: Vendor: IBM CORP Model: GEM312 V002 Rev: 4.1b >>May 9 12:03:32 llm09 kernel: Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > > OK, that's roughly what I was expecting. These processor chips tend to > be rather basic when it comes to rates and widths. > > The root cause, I think, is that the aic7xxx isn't starting out at async > narrow for the first inquiry (because the original DV code I removed did > this, and I didn't add an equivalent back). The latest aic7xxx patch > should sort this out. > > So, to get all of these changes, could you start with vanilla linus > kernel 2.6.12-rc4 (or tree based on this, but not -mm which already has > some of the SCSI tree included) and then apply the SCSI patch at > > http://parisc-linux.org/~jejb/scsi_diffs/scsi-misc-2.6.diff > > and see if it works? > > Thanks, > > James > James, This also solves my problem that I reported in this thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=111422854418964&w=2 -- kr