From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3-Ware Raid driver fails to update GenDisk head
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:55:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010423135500.B32378@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010423120852.A32097@vger.timpanogas.org> <20010423214701.A18855@win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010423214701.A18855@win.tue.nl>; from dwguest@win.tue.nl on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:08:52PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >
> > I am still working on this, but would appreciate some help from
> > whomever owns this driver proper. I have discovered that the
> > 3Ware drivers are not updating the gendisk_head with devices
> > reported and exposed to user space as /dev/sda, sdb, etc.
>
> But that is the job of sd.c, not of a driver.
These drivers are an IDE driver that simulates a SCSI interface. It
reported IDE devices as SCSI handles, so there's some holes. I guess
you were not aware of this, or you would have known that standard sd.c
is not working.
:-)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-23 18:08 Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-23 19:47 ` Guest section DW
2001-04-23 19:55 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2001-04-23 21:13 ` Guest section DW
2001-04-23 22:32 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-23 22:45 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-23 22:41 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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