[4603] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: [(patch?)] W95 can handle SCSI errors - Linux can't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Tue Aug 25 00:31:56 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:41:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, eric@aib.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, lnz@dandelion.com
In-Reply-To: <m0z8k07-000aNFC@the-village.bc.nu>
"The world was a library, and its books were the stones, leaves,
brooks, grass, and the birds of the earth. We learned to do what only
a student of nature ever learns, and that was to feel beauty."
Chief Luther Standing Bear - Teton Sioux
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > upon use of a good CDROM after the bad one.
> > The reason is that scsi_allocate_device() expects to be called
> > while io_request_lock is held, but sr_do_ioctl() calls it without
> > first claiming this lock.
>
> That may well explain the crashes I get if Im using the cd under load
> (the buslogic driver seems solid enough but I get double scsi free's
> or an instantanous reboot)
>
> > P.S. Is detailed information on the Adaptec 1542 available today?
> > For example, it would be nice to have an abort routine that
> > really worked.
>
> Ask Adaptec - they are supposed to be being Linux friendly now 8)
>
> Alan
>
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