RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > Here is a patch that removes the offending PPC PCI hacky area from the > driver (sym53c8xx_defs.h): > > --- sym53c8xx_defs.h Fri Apr 6 16:23:48 2001 > +++ sym53c8xx_defs.h.orig Sun Mar 4 13:54:11 2001 > @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ > #define SCSI

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > BTW, my 2.4.3-pre8 kernel just said > > | sym53c875-0:0: ERROR (81:0) (3-21-0) (10/9d) @ (script 8a8:0b00). Illegal instruction detected. > | sym53c875-0: script cmd = 1100 > | sym53c875-0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0d 00 03 80 2

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stefano Coluccini wrote: > > I'm still waiting for other reports of st/sym53c8xx on PPC under > > 2.4.x. BTW, > > does it work on other big-endian platforms, like sparc? > > I don't know if it is the same problem, but ... > I have a Motorola MVME5100 (PowerPC 750 based CPU)

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stefano Coluccini wrote: > > I'm still waiting for other reports of st/sym53c8xx on PPC under > > 2.4.x. BTW, > > does it work on other big-endian platforms, like sparc? > > I don't know if it is the same problem, but ... > I have a Motorola MVME5100 (PowerPC 750 based CPU) wi

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-06 Thread Stefano Coluccini
> I'm still waiting for other reports of st/sym53c8xx on PPC under > 2.4.x. BTW, > does it work on other big-endian platforms, like sparc? I don't know if it is the same problem, but ... I have a Motorola MVME5100 (PowerPC 750 based CPU) with a mezzanine PCI based on the sym53c875 chip. I'm using

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
BTW, my 2.4.3-pre8 kernel just said | sym53c875-0:0: ERROR (81:0) (3-21-0) (10/9d) @ (script 8a8:0b00). | sym53c875-0: script cmd = 1100 | sym53c875-0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0d 00 03 80 21 80 01 09 09 00 30 4e 00 08 |ff ff ff. | sym53c875-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > I did some more tests: > > > - The problem als

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I did some more tests: > > - The problem also occurs when tarring up files from a disk on the Sym53c875

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Is the corruption reproducible? If so, does the corruption go away if > > > > > > Yes, it is reprod

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Is the corruption reproducible? If so, does the corruption go away if > > > > Yes, it is reproducible. In all my tests, I tarred 16 files of 16 MB

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Is the corruption reproducible? If so, does the corruption go away if > > Yes, it is reproducible. In all my tests, I tarred 16 files of 16 MB each to > tape (I used a new one). > - test 1: 4 files wit

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Is the corruption reproducible? If so, does the corruption go away if Yes, it is reproducible. In all my tests, I tarred 16 files of 16 MB each to tape (I used a new one). - test 1: 4 files with failed md5sum (no further investigation on type of

st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
While doing some tests with my DDS drive, I noticed some file corruption. The data was written to the tape incorrectly, since reading always gives the same result. The drive didn't notice any write error. My test consisted of tarring up some kernel sources and splitting them in files of 16 MB. T