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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI "asking for cache data failed"
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:55:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1129208154.18635.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051013104536.GA10525@kufelek>

On Iau, 2005-10-13 at 12:45 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> I'm wondering about the following messages, which appeared when I upgraded from
> 2.4 to 2.6:
> 
> | sda: asking for cache data failed
> | sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> 
> (a larger log snippet below)

The kernel asks the SCSI drive for its cache parameters. The AMI raid
card sitting in the middle doesn't know how to handle this so this
message occurs. It should be ok providing the raid card itself is
handling the consistency correctly but check with your card vendor.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-13 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-13 10:45 Marcin Owsiany
2005-10-13 12:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-10-13 12:30   ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-13 18:30   ` Marcin Owsiany

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