Re: Megaraid and Dell PERC 4 controllers

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Sutphen
Seokmann, This sounds identical to a crash that I had on Saturday. I have a server that has a dual Opteron/244 with 2GB of memory (4x512MB 400MHz, Registered ECC, Corsair CM72SD512RLP-3) on a Tyan Opteron 8131 motherboard. The controller is the LSI MegaRAID SATA II 300-8X PCI-X (P/N LSI5 with

Re: [RFC] libata new EH document

2005-08-30 Thread Albert Lee
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Jeff, Albert ATA developers. This is the final one of recent document series for libata EH - SCSI EH, ATA exceptions, libata EH and, this one - libata new EH. This document tries to discuss how to implement new advanced EH. It also describes some proposed mechanisms

Re: [dm-devel] Re: fibre channel/multipath questions

2005-08-30 Thread Rik Bobbaers
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:01, christophe varoqui wrote: On lun, 2005-08-29 at 18:23 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: I think you can setup dm-multipath based on WWNs, so the device numbers don't matter. Cc'ed the dm-devel list to verify my assumption. Yes, true for the multipathed

Re: [dm-devel] Re: fibre channel/multipath questions

2005-08-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
the last rule poses the problem. depending on how many multipath devices i have, i constantly have to change lilo.conf for every machine. in bsd, there is a way to set your drives to a fixed name, is there something alike in linux? or a sollution to this problem? (i'm definately willing

Re: [RFC] libata new EH document

2005-08-30 Thread Tejun Heo
Albert Lee wrote: 4. Corresponding scmd's result code is set to SAM_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION and qc-scsidone() callback is called directly. As we haven't filled sense data, scsi_determine_disposition() will return FAILED and SCSI EH will be scheduled. Note that as we directly call

[PATCH] sg direct io/mmap oops

2005-08-30 Thread Douglas Gilbert
:23.0 +1000 +++ linux/drivers/scsi/sg.c2613mm 2005-08-30 15:09:04.0 +1000 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS #include linux/proc_fs.h -static char *sg_version_date = 20050328; +static char *sg_version_date = 20050830; static int sg_proc_init(void); static void

Re: [dm-devel] Re: fibre channel/multipath questions

2005-08-30 Thread Stefan Richter
Arjan van de Ven wrote: [|Rik Bobbaers wrote:] the last rule poses the problem. depending on how many multipath devices i have, i constantly have to change lilo.conf for every machine. in bsd, there is a way to set your drives to a fixed name, is there something alike in linux? or a sollution

Re: [dm-devel] Re: fibre channel/multipath questions

2005-08-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
there is mount-by-label (filesystem label that is) that at least Fedora and RHEL distros use, and I assume many other distros support too even if they don't use it by default. Although I don't really know what mount-by-label on Fedora and RHEL means precisely, I suspect it may not help

Re: Some interesting results in the aic7xxx slowdown problem

2005-08-30 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:19 +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter aic7896/97: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs [...] scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA

Re: [RFC] libata new EH document

2005-08-30 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:10 +0800, Albert Lee wrote: Could we get the sense data before calling qc-scsidone()? (Using the proposed separate EH qc can keep the original qc intact.) Well, the way most SCSI drivers do it today is to turn around the command returning Check Condition from irq

Re: [RFC] libata new EH document

2005-08-30 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/30/05 06:26, Tejun Heo wrote: Albert Lee wrote: 4. Corresponding scmd's result code is set to SAM_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION and qc-scsidone() callback is called directly. As we haven't filled sense data, scsi_determine_disposition() will return FAILED and SCSI EH will be

Re: [PATCH] fix compiler warning in aic7770

2005-08-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:15:36AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: Fix compiler warning in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c : drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c:129: warning: unused variable `l' ... This patch is already in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 (through the scsi-misc-2.6.git tree). cu Adrian --

Re: [RFC] SCSI EH document

2005-08-30 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/30/05 06:47, Tejun Heo wrote: Hi, Luben. Luben Tuikov wrote: On 08/29/05 05:14, Tejun Heo wrote: Both all the list-heads need to be cleared, otherwise there may be list corruption next time the element is added to the list_head. scmd-eh_entry is never used as list head. It's

Re: [PATCH] fix compiler warning in aic7770

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:15:36AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: Fix compiler warning in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c : drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c:129: warning: unused variable `l' ... This patch is already in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 (through

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-30 Thread tony . luck
This is alive and well in 2.6.13 (final) on ia64. Excerpts from dmesg when booting: Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.02 Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.02 GSI 28 (level, low) - CPU 1 (0xc218) vector 49 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :06:02.0[A] - GSI 28 (level,

[PATCH] aic7xxx: move to dma_get_required_mask() and correct 39 bit assumptions

2005-08-30 Thread James Bottomley
This patch moves aic7xxx over to the dma_get_required_mask() API and dumps its open coded memory check. It also appears from this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167049 That 39 bit addressing doesn't work on older cards. I surmise that the AHC_LARGE_SCBS flag is the

Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: move to dma_get_required_mask() and correct 39 bit assumptions

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:48:07AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: This patch moves aic7xxx over to the dma_get_required_mask() API and dumps its open coded memory check. Can you put in that change for aic79xx aswell? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the

Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: move to dma_get_required_mask() and correct 39 bit assumptions

2005-08-30 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch moves aic7xxx over to the dma_get_required_mask() API and dumps its open coded memory check. It also appears from this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167049 That 39 bit addressing doesn't work on older

Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx: move to dma_get_required_mask() and correct 39 bit assumptions

2005-08-30 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:13 -0700, Luben Tuikov wrote: AHC_LARGE_SCBS means that the card can take 64 byte hardware SCBs. Normally HSCBs are 32 bytes for older controllers. Latter aic78xx and all aic79xx chips support 64 byte HSCBs. So this isn't related. So all aic chips, regardless of age

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-30 Thread tony . luck
This is alive and well in 2.6.13 (final) on ia64. Or perhaps not. When I went into the machine room to take a look at this machine, I found that the disk drive in question was making some very bad noises. A few minutes later it stopped responding at all. Putting in a new drive, I see a

[PATCH scsi-misc-2.6] scsi_debug testing patch, return LUN 0 with PQ 3

2005-08-30 Thread Patrick Mansfield
Just a patch for scanning with PQ == 3 for LUN 0, only for use in testing previous patch, don't apply. diff -uprN -X /home/patman/dontdiff scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c lun0-replun-scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c --- scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c 2005-07-26

[PATCH scsi-misc-2.6] allow REPORT LUN scanning even for LUN 0 PQ of 3

2005-08-30 Thread Patrick Mansfield
James - Can you ack or comment? Allow REPORT LUN scanning even if LUN 0 reports a peripheral qualifier of 3 (effectively no storage is available on LUN 0). Similar patch I previously posted: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsim=110297733824960w=2 There is also Hannes patch, it leaves

adp94xx driver for 2.6.13?

2005-08-30 Thread Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Are drivers/sources available for Adaptec's AIC-94XX SAS controllers someplace? I am trying to run 2.6.13 on a x460. Any pointers to the latest driver sources appreciated. Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to [EMAIL