From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Burton Windle <bwindle@fint.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SCSI issue with 2.6.14-rc1
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:12:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126649551.4809.70.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17191.19125.826388.938552@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:55 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Burton> Dell Poweredge 1300, MegaRAID SCSI with hardware RAID1. With
> Burton> 2.6.13, system was fine, but on 2.6.14-rc1, it sees the RAID
> Burton> array as a 0mb drive with 1 512-byte sector, and seems to have
> Burton> a bit of a problem mounting /
>
> This sounds like the same problem I saw with the IA64 simscsi driver
> --- the READ_CAPACITY scsi command now generates a scatterlist, and
> some drivers don't cope.
>
> I don't know whether the right fix is to change all the drivers to
> understand a scatterlist, or to change sd_read_capacity() to not use
> scsi_execute_command().
There's a fix for the megaraid issue floating around on this list.
The correct solution is for all drivers to understand scatterlists.
This is actually true of most of them; there are just a few scsi
emulators that didn't for certain commands. These emulators are already
broken, since if these commands came via SG_IO, they'd be scatterlist
based, so the correct fix is in the emulators.
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-13 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 16:18 Burton Windle
2005-09-13 21:55 ` Peter Chubb
2005-09-13 22:12 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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