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Re: aha1542 vs. DAT vs. kernel 2.0.x

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Andree)
Tue May 16 05:43:38 2000

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In-Reply-To: "Eric Youngdale"'s message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 22:17:37 -0400"
From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date:	16 May 2000 11:33:36 +0200
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"Eric Youngdale" <eric@andante.org> writes:

>     For what it is worth, I was testing the new queueing code in the 2.3
> kernels using a 1542 and an old scratched up CDROM that gives lots of sector
> errors.  For this category of errors, eventually I started getting into the
> timeout code, and this would abort, and ultimately reset the bus.
> Eventually device got into such a weird state that the error handling code
> took the device offline.  Once this took place, the machine was back to
> normal (the root filesystem was on a SCSI disk on a different bus
> (aic7xxx)).

Sounds good so far, can that be back-ported to 2.2, and if so, who is
doing it? I can't, I'm not a kernel hacker currently and too short of
time to learn that. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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