Subject: Re: INITIO scsi driver fails to work properly
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Filippos Papadopoulos <psybases@gmail.com>,
       Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:03:56 -0600
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On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 14:30 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 12/19/2007 03:48 AM, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2007 2:18 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> >> I have found one problem. Please try patch [2] below and report.
> >> If it still fails try to enable debugging by setting with patch [1]
> >> these values at top of drivers/scsi/initio.c. And send dmsgs.
> >>
> >> Boaz
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I tried patch[2] (addition of   sg++)  at 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 but the
> > system hangs after some seconds when the initio driver loads.
> > I will try patch[1] next week to see what happens.
> > 
> > Would it be better to open a bug report at bugzilla?
> > 
> 
> There is also a Fedora bug report against 2.6.23. The user has
> applied commit e9e42faf47255274a1ed0b9bf1c46118023ec5fa from
> 2.6.24-rc plus the two additional fixes under discussion and it
> hangs for him too.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390531

It really sounds like there's some problem applying the patches.  The
consistent report throughout is this one:

initio: I/O port range 0x0 is busy.

Which should be fixed by 99f1f534922a2f2251ba05b14657a1c62882a80e.  I
didn't actually find that in the bug thread anywhere, but maybe I missed
it?

James


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