On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 06:00 +0100, Michael Joosten wrote: > >Perhaps Mr. Joosten can confirm his failing case with the UP kernel? > > > > > > > OK, I'm currently doing this, though with a Fedora Core3 kernel > (2.6.12-1.1381-FC3) UP and SMP, running it with some ooold filesystem > benchmark on a similarly old PIII 500MHz board. What else is possible is > an Intel dual PII (450MHz) server board (N440BX) , a dual PIII(730MHz) > workstation and a very recent one with hyperthreading PIV. I'm currently > using a distributed kernel with modules, because this version still has > the mmiowb() in place (I hope!) . > There might be a timing issue (the faults happend somehow earlier once > the board and the VisWS got warmer), but I hope that the other platforms > will show a little difference... > Well, the PIII board with both a 550 and a 800 MHz proc showed no > difference, the driver just *works*, no failure in 20 runs. It looks > like the problem only shows up in the VISWS. Perhaps I try it again > putting the QLA1080 in the 32bit slot, which is apparently not > controlled by the Lithium, but rather a plain PIIX chip. And perhaps > some other platform and chipset. Yes, the PIO posting issue is VISWS only, I think. Could you confirm that your original bug report was on a SMP VISWS, and could you try the tests over using a UP kernel on the VISWS? Thanks, James - : 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
