On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Eric Youngdale wrote:

>  2) Some people were reporting problems scanning the bus with ppa and
> imm host adapters.  The problem here was that I was incrementing the
> host usage count too soon, and thus hosts that could only queue a
> single command would deadlock attempting to scan the bus. I think I
> have fixed this - it was a relic of the old way of doing things (and a
> maintainence problem as well) to bump the usage count in two separate
> functions.  I moved this over so that it is all done in the same place
> now.  There is a danger that I missed something here, and thus there
> is a slight possibility that usage counts will get out of synch and
> the system will wedge.

Eric, I'm still having trouble with ppa after this patch.  It gets further
now -- the ppa module initialises now -- but I don't end up with a SCSI
device.  Here's the syslog from 2.3.35+your patch:

ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.09
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02

And here's the syslog from 2.2.14pre16:

ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.09
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
sda: Write Protect is off
 sda: sda4

Is this the 'wedge' that you mentioned?

Tim.
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