[1891] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Scsi host number roll over, can it kill a machine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Sat May 17 18:03:36 1997
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 18:07:28 -0400
From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
To: campbell@tirian.che.curtin.edu.au
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <97May17.031822-0400_edt.973284-10001+58@vger.rutgers.edu>
(campbell@tirian.che.curtin.edu.au)
>After killing the klogd I noticed that the scsi host number rolled
>over at 128 (went to -128) and started climbing towards 0. If there
>was a second scsi adapter other than ppa (internal pci card etc)
>would this cause a clash when two hosts shared the same host id?
Hmm, I believe "Ooops" is the correct response here. I
am not entirely sure - there will undoubtably be some weirdness if
you have two hosts with the same number, but it probably wouldn't be
that bad.
I am thinking that the host number should be changed to an
unsigned short. Try making that change and see whether this helps
at all.
-Eric
