From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@esperi.org.uk>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, nick.cheng@areca.com.tw,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:17:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc3nuipg.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FA71E2.6010501@fastmail.fm> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:34:10 +0200")
On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert stated:
> Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function
> calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became
> easy.
>
> Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?
Confirmed, thank you!
> Somehow older areca firmware versions have issues with
> scsi_get_vpd_page() and a large buffer.
I wonder if they're using math modulo SD_BUF_SIZE-1 by mistake, so they
misinterpret this as zero? (Still, doing math modulo 511 seems very
odd, even if this firmware *does* only support 512-byte sectors.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-03 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <51F667C2.4020801@fastmail.fm>
[not found] ` <87mwp5frdl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
[not found] ` <51F67959.2060803@fastmail.fm>
2013-07-29 21:09 ` [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition Nix
2013-07-29 23:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-30 18:09 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-31 0:07 ` Nick Alcock
2013-07-31 3:19 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-31 3:15 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-31 17:51 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-31 18:40 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-01 14:34 ` [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request Bernd Schubert
2013-08-01 14:37 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-02 3:00 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-08-26 20:15 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-02 23:46 ` Nick Alcock
2013-08-03 11:17 ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2013-08-30 10:01 ` Nix
2013-08-31 1:53 ` Greg KH
2013-08-31 19:48 ` Nix
2013-09-01 18:40 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-09-20 22:51 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-30 0:28 ` [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition Douglas Gilbert
2013-07-30 0:56 ` Nix
2013-07-30 18:14 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-30 21:20 ` Nix
2013-08-01 14:55 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-01 16:04 ` Nix
2013-08-01 16:21 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-31 3:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
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