sas_device/end_device-*/phy_identifier flipped

2006-12-27 Thread Douglas Gilbert
In lk 2.6.20-rc2 (and probably earlier) the phy_identifier attribute in the /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-* directory is showing the wrong end of the point to point link. Phy identifiers on (dual ported) SAS disks are typically 0 and 1. For SATA disks the phy identifier should be 0. # lsscsi [

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] TURBOchannel update to the driver model

2006-12-27 Thread James Simmons
> And last but not least, thanks to James Simmons for beginning this work a > while ago as his code was great to start with. Wow!! I thought the work was dropped along time ago. Thanks for bring it back. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of

KERN_NOTICE very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16)

2006-12-27 Thread Douglas Gilbert
This message is generated by sd when a disk is larger than 2 TB. Does it need to be? Could it be a logging message? It is also badly worded as the imperative "try" suggests that the user needs to find a utility that sends a READ CAPACITY(16). And I was recently contacted by a user with that in min