RE: very slow tar with deep trees on 2.1.131

christophe.leroy5@capway.com
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:59:13 +0100


I dont have scsi. I have IDE (not UDMA) disks.
Nothing in /var/log/messages nor in dmesg.

christophe

>Mayby unnecessary scsi resets are the reason?

>Did you have a look into your /var/log/messages (or whatever it is)
>and find corresponding "scsi blablabla : resetting for second half
>of retries."
>messages in there?

>If this is the case, i think i've found a fix.
>Somebody changed the time calculation for resetting
>in drivers/scsi/scsi_obsolete.c (line 1116) between 2.1.130 and
>2.1.131
>screwing at least aic7xxx (and maybe other low level scsi drivers
>using
>the _old_ scsi error handling stuff).

>See patch below.

>Regards,
>Heinz

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