Subject: Re: problems with ahc vs. format command
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/11/2001 19:42:11
hi,

these patches had no effect.  scsictl format failed in exactly the same way
for both systems.

has anyone actually had a scsictl format work with the
post-thorpej_scsipi code?  I'm curious if it works for anyone...

-Chuck


On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:54:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:05:20PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > the first two lines appear immediately, the rest appear after a 10-second
> > pause.
> > 
> > there are problems with formatting with a ncr53c9x adapter as well.
> > I've opened PR 13160 for this collection of format problems.
> 
> OK, there are interger overflow problems in both drivers, for such a long
> (6 hours) timeout. ncr53c9x.c tried to deal with this, but it fails anyway
> for long timeouts, for hz <= 100.
> Can you try the attached patches ?
> 
> I wonder how many other drivers have this problem ...
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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