On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:34:37AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:03 +0600, Denis Zaitsev wrote: > > Yes, I'm sorry. 2.6.10. > > That particular code was completely changed for 2.6.12-rc5; could you > see what that kernel makes of this, please? Ok, 2.6.12-rc5: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs Vendor: IBM Model: DDYS-T09170N Rev: S80D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32 target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation WIDTH IS 1 (scsi0:A:0): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit) target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests (scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16bit) target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation SCSI device sda: 17916240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9173 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 17916240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9173 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 It seems that things are in order, do I understand right? So, why and how the low-level format affects the old driver's behaviour? Thanks in advance. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html