[2303] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scsi.c, aic7xxx: problems in 2.0.28
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulrich Windl)
Mon Aug 18 08:35:14 1997
From: "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
To: patl@lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:31:24 +0200
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, aic7xxx@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: <s5glo278qzt.fsf@joseki.lcs.mit.edu>
On 12 Aug 97 at 9:34, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> ulrich.windl> I have also tried Linux 2.0.30 with some patches and
> ulrich.windl> the 4.009 version of the aic7xxx: The results are even
> ulrich.windl> worse; I got an OOPS 2 and a killed interrupt
> ulrich.windl> handler. Maybe my harddisk is special...
>
> The aic7xxx@freebsd.com mailing list might be interested in hearing
> about your problems with the latest driver...
As the king (Harald Koenig) pointed out ;-) the real problem might be
that the mid level SCSI code expectes the results of the "get defects
list" to fit in a single page. Most probably this is not true for
some drives. I don't know what the internal effects of such an
overrun are, but the new aic7xxx driver jokes badly.
If anyone needs specific messages, please tell me -- remember I'll
have to crash my system for it....
Ulrich
