Sorry Jens, you are mis-informed.
SCSI is only the packbuilder, but it is excuted by the ATA PacketCommand.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
CEO/President, LAD Storage Consulting Group
Linux ATA Development
Linux Disk Certification Project
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09 2001, Carl Ritson wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > Agrh, because of a bug in ide-scsi conversion this (other) bug went
> > > > > > unnoticed for a while. Basically we cannot look up the request queue
> > > > > > reliably from a request, since it may not have originated from the block
> > > > > > layer. ide-scsi builds it's own, for example. For those, we don't want
> > > > > > to trust the sg count either.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does attached patch work?
> > > > >
> > > > > Irk, there's a ide-scsi bug in there too. In
> > > > > drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c:idescsi_free_bio() change the kfree(bhp) to
> > > > > bio_put(bhp)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > With both these fixes applied cdrecord hangs for 30 seconds, then spits
> > > > out "cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl",
> > > > a couple of hundred times.
> > > >
> > > > In the from dmesg from the same time I get.
> > > > ------
> > > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> > > > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
> > > > hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> > > > hdc: drive not ready for command
> > > > scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 0 channel 0
> > > > id 0 lun 0
> > > > ------
> > >
> > > Please try a run with DMA disabled.
> > >
> >
> > Ok works with DMA off, so I expect that this new error is due to my resent
> > memory upgrade (36 Hours ago) and the switch to using HIGHMEM(4GB)..
> > So am I to believe that DMA is a problem with HIGHMEM(4GB) enabled ?
>
> No it's probably still an ide-scsi bug, I'm not suspecting your
> hardware. The reason I ask is because until -pre8 (since bio merge in
> -pre2), ide-scsi never used DMA even though it was set for the drive.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
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