On Thu, Feb 08 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > total request sizes. I would rather fix this limitation then, and
> > would also be interested to know if any of the (older) SCSI drivers
> > have such limitations too.
>
> And some new ones. One of my i2o scsi controllers has that problem.
Ok thanks, I'
> total request sizes. I would rather fix this limitation then, and
> would also be interested to know if any of the (older) SCSI drivers
> have such limitations too.
And some new ones. One of my i2o scsi controllers has that problem.
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> much-improved block layer of 2.4.x throws larger I/Os at the driver. So,
> the developers at Adaptec are busy trying to add support to break large
> requests into smaller chunks, and then gather them back together.
That sounds like it should be doable at the queuing layer. If not the scsi
queu
On Wed, Feb 07 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I haven't seen this driver, but if it uses the SCSI layer instead
> > of being a "pure" block driver then I can see a slight problem
> > in that currently only understand max sg entry limits and not
> > total request sizes. I would rather fix this
> I haven't seen this driver, but if it uses the SCSI layer instead
> of being a "pure" block driver then I can see a slight problem
> in that currently only understand max sg entry limits and not
> total request sizes. I would rather fix this limitation then, and
> would also be interested to kno
On Wed, Feb 07 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Adaptec is still working on it. Basically (and as Jason discovered), the
> driver and firmware can't handle single I/O requests larger than 64KB. Even
> when scatter/gathered, if the total is >64KB, it chokes. This was just fine
> for 2.2.x (no on
> I see in the archives of this mailing list that someone was
> working on the
> aacraid driver for the 2.4 kernel however that post was
> almost 2 months old.
Adaptec is still working on it. Basically (and as Jason discovered), the
driver and firmware can't handle single I/O requests larger t
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jason Ford wrote:
> Byron,
>
> I got your patch to compile in fine however it still exhibits the same
> behavior that the older patches did. It looks like the commands sent to the
> controller are still not working correctly as the new subsystem in the
> kernel was rewritten.
on.. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for your reply post..
Jason
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From: Byron Stanoszek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:48 PM
To: Jason Ford
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: aacraid 2.4.0 kernel
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jason Ford wrote
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jason Ford wrote:
> I see in the archives of this mailing list that someone was working on the
> aacraid driver for the 2.4 kernel however that post was almost 2 months old.
> I know Alan Cox denied inclusion of the driver due to the poor nature it was
> written for the 2.2 tr
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