[OOPS] Linux 2.5 and Parallel Port Zip 100

[OOPS] Linux 2.5 and Parallel Port Zip 100

[John Weber]

Loading the ppa module causes a kernel oops... apparently it causes some 
trouble for the interrupt handler.  It is a bit difficult to provide the 
  oops here since it freezes the entire machine, but I will try to break
my test box with this later today.

I am running 2.5 on an Intel PIII.

Affected kernels:
Linux 2.5.4-pre2  (and probably 2.5.3 and 2.5.4-pre1 since these both
                    have Evgeniy Polyakov's updates to "various SCSI
                    drivers to new locking" which includes ppa.c)

Who is maintaining the linux iomega stuff?

Re: [OOPS] Linux 2.5 and Parallel Port Zip 100

[Tim Waugh]

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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:51:27PM -0500, John Weber wrote:

> Who is maintaining the linux iomega stuff?

For 2.4.x, me (in theory).  I don't have time for 2.5.x at the moment.

Tim.
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Re: [OOPS] Linux 2.5 and Parallel Port Zip 100

[John Weber]

>
>
>
>I was wondering if you had received my patch.  I had mail problems on Monday 
>and lost messages.
>
>Rich
>

I did try out the patch.  

The first time I used the driver there was major damage to the fs on one 
of my zip disks (so the "mv bigassfile /mnt/zip/" failed miserably), but 
I couldn't be sure that the driver was the root cause so I didn't email 
you about it.

Thereafter, I tried mounting/unmounting, writing new filesystems, 
writing/reading large files...
everything checked out fine.

You should definitely forward your patch to LKML and Linus.

[PATCH] Re: [OOPS] Linux 2.5 and Parallel Port Zip 100

[Rich Baum]

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The following patch allows parallel port zip drives to work with 2.5 kernels. 
 This patch has been tested with both imm and ppa drives.  Thanks to John 
Weber for testing the ppa part of this patch.

Rich

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diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/drivers/scsi/imm.c linux-rb/drivers/scsi/imm.c
--- linux/drivers/scsi/imm.c	Sun Feb 10 16:04:43 2002
+++ linux-rb/drivers/scsi/imm.c	Thu Feb  7 22:22:38 2002
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@
 	    cmd->SCp.this_residual = cmd->request_bufflen;
 	    cmd->SCp.ptr = cmd->request_buffer;
 	}
-	cmd->SCp.buffers_residual = cmd->use_sg;
+	cmd->SCp.buffers_residual = cmd->use_sg - 1;
 	cmd->SCp.phase++;
 	if (cmd->SCp.this_residual & 0x01)
 	    cmd->SCp.this_residual++;
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/drivers/scsi/ppa.c linux-rb/drivers/scsi/ppa.c
--- linux/drivers/scsi/ppa.c	Sun Feb 10 16:04:44 2002
+++ linux-rb/drivers/scsi/ppa.c	Sun Feb 10 22:36:20 2002
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@
 	    if (cmd->SCp.buffers_residual--) {
 		cmd->SCp.buffer++;
 		cmd->SCp.this_residual = cmd->SCp.buffer->length;
-		cmd->SCp.ptr = cmd->SCp.buffer->address;
+		cmd->SCp.ptr = page_address(cmd->SCp.buffer->page) + cmd->SCp.buffer->offset;
 	    }
 	}
 	/* Now check to see if the drive is ready to comunicate */
@@ -923,14 +923,14 @@
 	    /* if many buffers are available, start filling the first */
 	    cmd->SCp.buffer = (struct scatterlist *) cmd->request_buffer;
 	    cmd->SCp.this_residual = cmd->SCp.buffer->length;
-	    cmd->SCp.ptr = cmd->SCp.buffer->address;
+	    cmd->SCp.ptr = page_address(cmd->SCp.buffer->page) + cmd->SCp.buffer->offset;
 	} else {
 	    /* else fill the only available buffer */
 	    cmd->SCp.buffer = NULL;
 	    cmd->SCp.this_residual = cmd->request_bufflen;
 	    cmd->SCp.ptr = cmd->request_buffer;
 	}
-	cmd->SCp.buffers_residual = cmd->use_sg;
+	cmd->SCp.buffers_residual = cmd->use_sg - 1;
 	cmd->SCp.phase++;
 
     case 5:			/* Phase 5 - Data transfer stage */

Re: [PATCH] Re: [OOPS] Linux 2.5 and Parallel Port Zip 100

[Andries.Brouwer]

I found that booting 2.5.* with a disk in the ZIP drive
causes an immediate crash. Also, that this is fixed by
the patch by Rich Baum from a few days ago.

Andries