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Re: Minor bugs in SCSI subsystem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Wed Jul 22 11:54:45 1998

From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 	22 Jul 1998 16:23:00 +0200
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Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@dilog.ch> wrote:
> Whenever someone has some time :)

Someone must have

> OS: Linux 2.0.34

With 2.1.109:

> NAME
>    Minor bug 1
> PROBLEM-DESCRIPTION
>    If `sd' is compiled hard in the kernel (no module), and some of
>    the SCSI cards are compiled as modules, sd will only allocate
>       NUMBER_OF_SEEN_DISKS_AT_BOOT + 2
>    The `2' is defined in host.h. This means that even if you have
>    3 other SCSI cards with disks on them, you will get at most 2
>    of them available.

Seems fixed.

> NAME
>    Minor bug 2
> PROBLEM-DESCRIPTION
>    If inserting and removing a lot of modules, the number of the
>    SCSI adapter will be incremented. But also, the ``detected'' disk
>    name will get strange values such as sd|, sd?, sd#, etc. However,
>    the name of the disk when doing the sd initialization (partition
>    table) will still be sda, sdb, etc.

Seems fixed.

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