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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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Subject: Re: aic7xxx broken in 2.5.53/54 ?
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>> [gibbs@scsiguy.com]
>> 
>> These reads are actually more expensive than just using PIO.  Neither of
>> these older drivers included a test to try and catch fishy behavior.
> 
> Justin, are you quite sure that these tests actually work?
> I too have just run into

See my recent post to the SCSI list.  The tests don't work on
certain older controllers that lack a feature I was using.  The
latest csets submitted to Linus correct this problem (as verified
on a dusty dual P-90 PCI/EISA box just added to our regression cluster).

--
Justin

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