Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

.) Kurt Garloff wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:24:56AM +0900, Chiaki Ishikawa wrote: --- begin quote --- enclosed are 163 potential bugs in 2.4.1 where blocking functions are called with either interrupts disabled or a spin lock held. The checker works by: Here's the file

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

time of SCSI case is TWICE as long if we let the previous output of the test program stay before running the second test? (I suspect fdatasync takes time proportional to the (then current) file size, but still why SCSI case is so long is beyond me.) Eg. ishikawa@duron$ ls -l /tmp/t.out ls: /tmp

devfs/devfsd :registers generic (sg) while cd (sr_mod) was not. Still investigating.

is not fatal and should be considered simply an annoying feature that is not documented anywhere very well and confuse the uninitiated. Happy Hacking Chiaki Ishikawa --- begin half-finished document The question: sr cdrom ... built-in --- does this solve the mystery? Y

Re: devfs/devfsd :registers generic (sg) while cd (sr_mod) was not. Still investigating.

in Debian GNU/Linux devfsd packages so far.). Chiaki Ishikawa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scan past lun 7 in 2.4.0

to it. Oh well, this is more like devfs issue rather than the SCSI driver problem. Happy Hacking, Chiaki Ishikawa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scan past lun 7 in 2.4.0

Ishikawa wrote: It seems that there is no problem with this configuration: All the luns were recognized. No visible error/warning message in dmesg or syslog files. (Except that there is a slight problem. I have been using devfs for about a week.. Is it possible that /dev/scsi/host1

Re: Scan past lun 7 in 2.4.0

source tree. Unfortunately, the patch for all hunks failed. Hmm... What was the version of the original linux source tree? Happy Hacking, Chiaki Ishikawa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

"J . A . Magallon" wrote: Average users you are targetting with that automagical card detection even do not know there are SCSI and IDE disks. They just want a 30Gb ide disk to install linux and play. If they involve with SCSI and ID numbers and multiple cards and so on they can read some