[3051] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: new scsi code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Wed Jan 7 08:10:46 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:19:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980105172029.30415C-100000@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > I don't read linux-kernel. I do read linux-scsi. Far too much
> > noise on the kernel group (I used to spent all my free time deleting mail
> > and not accomplishing anything).
>
> I gate linux-kernel to a local newsgroup, a good solution for this
> Problem.
Someone local has it available via the web, so I can browse it if
I ever want to.
> I tracked the problem down in the meantime. scsi_check_sense() returns
> FAILED for a ILLEGAL REQUEST. Result is that scsi_unjam_host() gets
> called and takes the device offline...
>
> If scsi_check_sense() returns SUCCESS, the error is handled one layer up
> and everything is fine :-)
Yes, this is exactly what I figured the problem would be, and the
patch is correct.
-Eric