Re: 3ware Escalade problems

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 01:40:55 +0100 (BST)


> Try putting four adapters into a system all at once with 32 drives, and
> you will see all sorts of bugs. I do not see problems with a single board,
> other than gendisk reporting junk. If it's the scsi layer, then the driver
> must not be calling the sd driver. I will attempt to get on the phone with
> Adam, and get these issues resolved.

The scsi disk layer does the entire gendisk stuff itself. Its actually
very hard for a scsi driver to screw that up - the scsi driver has no
real concept of a 'disk'. sd talks to a disk and the scsi driver just gets
messages posted around.

Alan

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