[PATCH as494] Add a scsi_device flag for RETRY_HWERROR

2005-03-24 Thread Alan Stern
James: It turns out that a bunch of USB-IDE converters make the mistake of returning SK = 04 (Hardware Error) whenever the IDE device signals any sort of error, without bothering to distinguish recoverable from non-recoverable errors. The best way to handle this is for usb-storage to set a

Re: adaptec 2120S software under RedHat 8.0 and FC2

2005-03-24 Thread Ross Macintyre
Christoph Hellwig said: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:32:04PM -, Ross Macintyre wrote: Since you advise us to stay away from Adaptec, and I assume you are part of the team that manages the Fedora system, I'm not associated with Fedora at all. can you advise users what RAID / Storage

Re: [PATCH as494] Add a scsi_device flag for RETRY_HWERROR

2005-03-24 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Alan Stern wrote: James: It turns out that a bunch of USB-IDE converters make the mistake of returning SK = 04 (Hardware Error) whenever the IDE device signals any sort of error, without bothering to distinguish recoverable from non-recoverable errors. Alan, The sense key of HARDWARE ERROR is a

[PATCH] - MPT FUSION - SPLITTING SCSI HOST DRIVERS

2005-03-24 Thread Moore, Eric Dean
Here are several patches(7) which follow this email. These patches are for the mpt fusion scsi host drivers, which separate the scsi host drivers into separate bus type kernel modules. This was requested by several people on the linux-scsi@ forum, so our driver can properly support the various

[PATCH 1/7] - MPT FUSION - SPLITTING SCSI HOST DRIVERS

2005-03-24 Thread Moore, Eric Dean
These patches are for the mpt fusion scsi host drivers, which separate the scsi host drivers into separate bus type kernel modules. This was requested by several people on the linux-scsi@ forum, so our driver can properly support the various transport layers; e.g. SPI, FC, and eventually SAS.

[PATCH 3/7] - MPT FUSION - SPLITTING SCSI HOST DRIVERS

2005-03-24 Thread Moore, Eric Dean
These patches are for the mpt fusion scsi host drivers, which separate the scsi host drivers into separate bus type kernel modules. This was requested by several people on the linux-scsi@ forum, so our driver can properly support the various transport layers; e.g. SPI, FC, and eventually SAS.

[PATCH 7/7] - MPT FUSION - SPLITTING SCSI HOST DRIVERS

2005-03-24 Thread Moore, Eric Dean
These patches are for the mpt fusion scsi host drivers, which separate the scsi host drivers into separate bus type kernel modules. This was requested by several people on the linux-scsi@ forum, so our driver can properly support the various transport layers; e.g. SPI, FC, and eventually SAS.

[PATCH 6/7] - MPT FUSION - SPLITTING SCSI HOST DRIVERS

2005-03-24 Thread Moore, Eric Dean
These patches are for the mpt fusion scsi host drivers, which separate the scsi host drivers into separate bus type kernel modules. This was requested by several people on the linux-scsi@ forum, so our driver can properly support the various transport layers; e.g. SPI, FC, and eventually SAS.

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/08] scsi: fix hot unplug sequence

2005-03-24 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:15 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: I think I found the cause. Special requests submitted using scsi_do_req() never initializes -end_io(). Normally, SCSI midlayer terminates special requests inside the SCSI midlayer without passing through the blkdev layer. However, if a

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/08] scsi: fix hot unplug sequence

2005-03-24 Thread Tejun Heo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:02:45PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:15 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: I think I found the cause. Special requests submitted using scsi_do_req() never initializes -end_io(). Normally, SCSI midlayer terminates special requests inside the