Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 7 May 1996 08:13:14 +0200 | Subject | 1.3.98 - my impressions |
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I'd like to tell you my impressions of 1.3.98:
I selected "no ALPHA test drivers", but still got PCI bridge optimization (experimental) Kernel/User network link driver offered.
in the sources scsi/eata_{dma,pio}.c the date of the new versions is older than the versions of 1.3.97. I guess the author forgot to change the year to 96!
I bug reported for 1.3.85 is still there: When I insert a bad CD into my Toshiba SCSI CD drive, I get a completely locked machine (interrupts off) after the following messages:
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null count=1 scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 SCSI error: host 0 id2 lun 0 return code = 18000002 Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 3 sr_photocd: ioctl error(TOSHIBA#1): 0x18000002
Comments: I have an Adaptec 2940 with one disk and one CD-ROM. The CD inserted was _not_ a photo cd as the message might indicate. In ront of the message with "Sense class" there is one graphical character (a tab?). The inability of doing anything with keyboard and mouse suggests that the interrupts were off when the machine was dead (Yes, I've waited long enough (several minutes)).
I would expect that the driver tries resetting the bus or the device several times, but not that the system dies. This is very bad. Maybe it's a problem in the aic7xxx driver. Can anybody with a really damaged CD reproduce this effect?
BTW: Someone forgot to change the driver version for aic7xxx in 1.3.98. Or is this an inofficial pre-patch?
Ulrich Windl
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