Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:20:28 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Bug in the sg driver |
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:06:36 +0300 Dag Nygren <dag@newtech.fi> wrote:
| | Hi, | | just got back from a customer with major problems | with a LTO-drive and an Adaptec 19160. | | The problems was ones that HP claimed a firmware | upgrade would fix and even gave a tool for doing this: | hp_ltt. | | Running this the first time would always segfault and trying | a second time would consistently panic the system. | | We traced the segfault to sg_ioctl trying to do something. | After finding a vague hint with google I tried to boot with | mem=512M (The machine has 2GB of memory) and voila: | The update worked without any crashes. | We don't know yet if the firmware update fixed the original problem, | but the conclusion is: | | sg_ioctl seems to address illegal parts of memory when used with | kernels where highmem is enabled. | | Any sg-driver maintainers out there?
from MAINTAINERS file: SCSI SG DRIVER P: Doug Gilbert M: dgilbert@interlog.com L: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org W: http://www.torque.net/sg S: Maintained
Any details, like kernel version, oops or panic logs, etc.?
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