Re: 3-Ware Raid driver fails to update GenDisk head

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 14:55:00 EST


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

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