Re: 2.4.21: kernel BUG at ide-iops.c:1262!

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:47:23 -0400

Alan Cox on Wed 25/06 13:00 +0100:
> Its a known problem. There are two approaches. Either
> rewrite the ide scsi reset code to use ide_abort
> infrastructure or switch ide-scsi back to the old
> abort/reset code not new_eh and use SCSI_RESET_PUNT so
> that the recovery is all handled by the ide layer.
>
> For 2.4 the latter may be the best approach, for 2.5 it
> has to use new_eh

is this what

o First crack at fixing the ide reset oopses (me)

tries to fix?

The CDRW devices that have problems with Test Unit Ready
during finalization (like the GCC-4240N) are broken and this
won't fix that problem, but the fix you're talking about
will stop the kernel from crashing when it happens, do I
have that right?
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