From: Pasi Pirhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:45:27 +0300
> >From dmesg the difference seems to be that when i did fail, i did have > two same type disk that both did claim to be > > sda: Mode Sense: cf 00 10 08 > SCSI device sda: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and > FUA > SCSI device sda: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) > sda: Write Protect is off > sda: Mode Sense: cf 00 10 08 > SCSI device sda: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and > FUA > > and now, when i do have different disk as /dev/sdb that gets detected as > > sdb: Mode Sense: fb 00 00 08 > SCSI device sdb: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support > DPO or FUA > SCSI device sdb: 71132959 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB) > sdb: Write Protect is off > sdb: Mode Sense: fb 00 00 08 > SCSI device sdb: write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support > DPO or FUA > > > ... if that is clue for reason at all. The two disks are identical except for MODE_SENSE settings printed here and those are just some timeout parameters and such. The current driver should not hit the problems you saw. I plan to post in-full the current driver as a patch in a few moments, if you could retest this case with it, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
